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Re: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt hardware recognition
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt hardware recognition
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Sep 7 02:46:07 2001
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Sun Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
Taco Scargo - Sun Holland - Leiden wrote:
> This will only tell you the software model, not the hardware model. The software
> model can also be found by looking at /etc/build
Newer 2.2 (2.2.16C23 and higher) kernels also provide information in
/proc/cpuinfo, and 2.4 kernels provide it in /proc/cobalt/systype.
The format has changed just a bit for 2.4.x, but you should still be able
to parse it.
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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@xxxxxxx