Determining CPU features / cache organization from userland

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:36:40AM -0700, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> I'm looking for ways that a userland program can determine the CPU
> features available on an SMP machine -- processor model, stepping
> numbers, supported features, cache organization etc.

"What Silby said" and have a look at the sysutils/x86info port.

I've been thinking we should definitely make the cache organization
info available via sysctl. I am thinking we should do this to make
the UMA_ALIGN_CACHE definition mean something...

I will probably throw diffs Jeff's way soon for this but I'm recovering
from a bit of a nasty cold right now.

BMS