On 16-Jun-2004 Radek Kozlowski wrote: > On 2004.06.16 18:11, John Polstra wrote: >> >> Check out the "misc/cpuid" port. Here's some sample output from a >> PIII system. Cache information is at the end. >> > > The latest version of cpuid is from 2002 and at least for my Athlon XP-M > processor it doesn't read the information about L2 cache correctly. > IIRC, for my L2 size it only takes one byte from the beginning of ecx > register, whereas in my case it is stored in two, a.s.o. So I wouldn't > rely on cpuid when it comes to newer CPUs. Yes, but it gives working code that generally shows how to get the information. Here's a link to an Intel document "Intel(R) Processor Idientification and the CPUID Instruction" that covers the newer CPUs: http://www.intel.com/design/Xeon/applnots/24161825.pdf JohnReceived on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 14:36:06 UTC
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