hw.model is empty?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:30:39 -0700
Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:

> > The bsdstats script uses 'sysctl -n hw.model' to get cpu
> > information, but on my machine this reports an empty string.
> 
>   Definitely a bug. The info is there - it can be seen in the dmesg - 
> just needs to be propagated to the sysctl.

For completeness, this bug (sysctl hw.model is empty) is still present
on:
tingo at kg-g4$ uname -a
FreeBSD kg-g4.kg4.no 7.0-CURRENT-200701 FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT-200701 #0: Sun Jan  7 15:57:16 UTC 2007     root at xserve.pn.xcllnt.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  powerpc
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway