Script Detection of Processor Architecture

[Larry Lindsey]

I have kernels compiled for p3, p3-smp, p4, p4-smp, 586mmx, k8, and k8-smp.

Essentially, I'd like to be able to detect which selection under Processor Type
in the kernel source config is best compatible with the running processor.  It'd
be nice to detect SMP, as well, and I'm not sure if cpuinfo can detect multiple
processors if the kernel is a uniprocessor build.

I'm wondering if there might be a way to make the distinction based on the cpu
flags, like sse2 or mmxext and so forth.

What would you suggest?

Thanks,
Larry

Quoting Michael Tautschnig <tautschn at model.in.tum.de>:

> Could you be more precise on the list of processor types you'd like to
> distinguish? Debian, e.g., does only provide -686, -k7 kernels, so it would
> be
> pretty easy.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>


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