>> /proc/cpuinfo was *definitely* meant to be parsed by programs.
>> Unfortunately, lots of architectures seems to have completely missed
>> that fact.
>
> Sigh, its a shame such things aren't documented somewhere in the
> kernel tarball.
Ah, but you're supposed to remember the history!
The colons were added to make parsing easier.
I think that was done after somebody added spaces
on the left, and lots of app developers screamed
that the format had become hopeless.
Right now I'm looking to get the temperature,
clock speed, and voltage. I get the first two
on PowerPC hardware, but it's not obvious what
mess an SMP system would spit out.
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