site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com subtype? that's possible the worst option, because evaluating the subtype only makes sense in the context of the cputype. Shantonu On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:15 AM, Stephane Sudre wrote:

A suggested solution:

sysctl hw.cpusubtype

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Duane Murphy <duanemurphy@mac.com> wrote:

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We have a script that needs to detect if the OS is running on Intel hardware.

What is the safe way of doing this?

Our previous solution was to use system_profiler cpu_type. Interestingly, we have discovered that some systems do not provide a cpu_type string.

I also looked at sysctl machdep.cpu. This entry is not even provided on PPC systems.

Now I am considering sysctl kern.version although parsing that is likely the same as parsing arch.

Is there a recommended solution?

Thanks,

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