Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:11:05 -0600 | From | Rob Herring <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: update cpuinfo to print CPU model name |
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On 01/29/2013 09:54 AM, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: > Hi, > > The following patches update cpuinfo to print CPU > model name for ARM. First patch exactly makes needed > changes for ARM architecture. > Second patch adds this ability to OMAP4 SoCs. > > This adds a common approach to show SoC name. > > Looks like there were few attempts to do similar > changes to cpuinfo without any luck.
Care to point out how your solution is different from those or addresses the issues with them.
Assuming we want to do this, I think this information should come from DeviceTree. OMAP may have this in a register, but others don't.
Rob
> > So - comments are welcome > > Ruslan Bilovol (2): > ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print CPU model name > ARM: OMAP4: setup CPU model name during ID initialisation > > arch/arm/include/asm/setup.h | 1 + > arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 10 ++++++++++ > arch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- > 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >
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