Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

[Antony Mawer]

On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
>> This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI 
>> devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the 
>> system or even how many there are.  It doesn't tell you exactly what 
>> sort of memory or disk drives the system uses -- all of which would be 
>> important information that might just persuade hardware manufacturers 
>> to provide more FreeBSD support. Surely a condensed version of 
>> /var/run/dmesg.boot is more to the point.
> 
> /var/run/dmesg.boot can't be relied on, unfortunately ... I've had 
> *many* times where a reboot leaves that blank, or with "non-dmesg like" 
> output ... if you can provide a non-dmesg method of adding this 
> information that is consistent (ie. pciconf), then sure, we can add this 
> sort of information ...

Some of this information can be gathered from the hw.* sysctl's, at 
least on 6.x...

-Antony