hw.model is empty?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jan 14, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> 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

I just fixed this:

xserve% sysctl hw.model
hw.model: Motorola PowerPC 7455

xserve% uname -a
FreeBSD xserve.pn.xcllnt.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sun  
Jan 14 13:40:10 PST 2007     marcel at xserve.pn.xcllnt.net:/nfs/freebsd/ 
7.x/src/sys/powerpc/compile/XSERVE  powerpc

FYI,

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com