Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:19:35 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH ] arm64: cpuinfo: Add "model name" in /proc/cpuinfo for 64bit tasks also |
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 02:32:25PM +0530, Sumit Gupta wrote: > Removed restriction of displaying model name for 32 bit tasks only. > Because of this Processor details were not displayed in > "System setting -> Details" in Ubuntu model name display is generic > and can be printed for 64 bit also. > > model name : ARMv8 Processor rev X (v8l) > > Signed-off-by: Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>
You didn't give a reason why this is needed. For 32-bit tasks, we did it for backwards compatibility with code checking for it.
-- Catalin
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