Name

hwprefs

Synopsis

hwprefs [-h]
hwprefs [-v] parameter[=value] [parameter[=value]]...

Prints some information about the system to standard output. This is installed as part of the Computer Hardware Understanding Development (CHUD) set of developer tools.

Options

-h

Print a usage statement to standard error.

-v

Print information verbosely.

parameter

One of the following: cpus reports the number of CPUs (either 1 or 2), cpunap reports whether the CPU may slow down to conserve energy (either 0 or 1), hwprefetch reports the number of prefetch engines used by a G5 CPU (either 4 or 8), and ostype reports the code name for the system’s OS (either Cheetah (Mac OS X 10.0), Puma (10.1), Jaguar (10.2), Smeagol (10.2.7), or Panther (10.3)).

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