Detecting CPU type without dmesg

[Nathan Butcher]

Hi everyone,

Here's a curly question:- How can you detect the CPU type (make, model,
and rated speed) on a running FreeBSD server without using dmesg?

I can't shut this machine off to check BIOS messages, and neither can I
check dmesg (it seems that a pile of network dmesg logging has rotated
the kernel initialization log part off into the sunset).

Is there a way to check CPU processor make and model type at all now?
I'm starting to wish that FreeBSD would save the kernel initialization
log in a place where it couldn't get lost (sort of like /proc in Linux
but without the fanciness that entails)... or perhaps there is such a
Valhalla in FreeBSD and I can't see it for the forest?

Help much appreciated....

Nathan