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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "Tim R. Young" <try@lyang.net>
Cc: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cpu id?
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:00:08 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0107170158130.11036-100000@Appserv.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010716163004.A1103@box.lyang.net>

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Tim R. Young wrote:

> Thanks for the tool.
> Do I need kernel support to read out intel processor serial number?

By default, the kernel will disable the serial number.
You need to pass the boot time parameter 'serialnumber' to
leave it enabled. You'll also need the cpuid & msr drivers
compiled (into kernel or as loadable modules)

> And how it is reported by x86info?

If it is enabled, it'll get printed out with x86info -a

regards,

Dave.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.suse.de/~davej
| SuSE Labs


      reply	other threads:[~2001-07-17  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-16 21:31 Tim R. Young
2001-07-16 21:42 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-16 21:51   ` Dave Jones
2001-07-16 23:30     ` Tim R. Young
2001-07-17  0:00       ` Dave Jones [this message]

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