Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpuinfo: Include cleartext implementer and part strings | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:17:18 +0100 |
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Hi Olof,
On 15/07/18 04:53, Olof Johansson wrote: > There's some use in printing out what the implementer and part numbers > decode to for cases where they're known. > > I filled in the table based on public information; mostly from ARM TRMs > and other tools (and some of the SSBD tables in the kernel, etc). > > Apple IDs came from > https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/master/osfmk/arm/cpuid.h > > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> > --- > arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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The same thing pops up every so often. And the answer is the same each time:
- it breaks an existing userspace ABI by changing the format of cpuinfo - it is unmaintainable in the long run - userspace already has this information by simply running "lscpu"
What has changed?
M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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