site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) No. Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Terry Lambert wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Mike wrote: Is there a way to get the description of the processor(s) using sysctl. I am interested in the specific processor name, not the family name. For example "Northwood", not "i386" or "x86". We care about the family and the capability bits, not the Intel marketing name for it. The first lets us grade binaries, and th second lets us write software that avoids attempting to use capabilities not present on a specific CPU. -- Terry I am not attempting to use this info to determine capabilities of the specific CPU. I need to write a system-profiler like feature and I need the name of the processor, not just the family. System Profiler provides the processor name, so there must be a way to get it. For example on the MacBook it reports: This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com