Check if G5 is a SMP one?

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                          How do I check if a G5 PPC mac has 2 CPUs or not?

When booting it up under Linux (Debian 8) only one CPU seems to be detected:

    cat /proc/cpuinfo 
    processor	: 0
    cpu		: PPC970FX, altivec supported
    clock		: 1800.000000MHz
    revision	: 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)

    timebase	: 33333333
    platform	: PowerMac
    model		: PowerMac9,1
    machine		: PowerMac9,1
    motherboard	: PowerMac9,1 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh 
    detected as	: 337 (PowerMac G5)
    pmac flags	: 00000000
    L2 cache	: 512K unified
    pmac-generation	: NewWorld

And the kernel should support SMP:

    uname -a
    Linux g5 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) ppc64 GNU/Linux

Does an SMP G5 Macs has 2 heat sinks installed - or is it one big one?

Is there perhaps a OpenFirmware command that lists the CPU details?

                        

Asked by maxschlepzig (883 rep)

Feb 3, 2016, 08:10 PM
Last activity: Feb 3, 2016, 10:01 PM

Check if G5 is a SMP one?

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