Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-31 Thread Ruslan Bilovol
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read

[RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-30 Thread Ruslan Bilovol
Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this information may decide what module to load or how to configure some specific (and processor-depended) settings or so. However, since really different SoCs can share

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this information may decide what module to load or how to configure some specific (and processor-depended) settings or

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-30 Thread Matt Sealey
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this information may decide what module to load or

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Matt Sealey wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-30 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this information may decide what module to load or

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-30 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On 17:01 Wed 30 Jan , Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this information may decide what module to load or how to configure some specific (and processor-depended) settings