On Tue, 31 May 2005, Sam MacDonald wrote:
> I'm unaware of a way to get the stepping of a processor without looking 
> at it.

natecars at knight:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping        : 8

I *believe* that's the proper stepping field.

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