Thank you for sharing this! I had those changes on my agenda as well.

The parsing of the cache size breaks the build for me, so I created a patch
file that omits these parts[1].

I tested it on two devices: the Client gets the proper CPU description now.
This can help targeting specific ARM features (e.g. NEON) with the project
scheduler.

David: Could you please review the patch and commit it to the Client code?

[1]
https://github.com/novarow/AndroidBOINC/blob/master/native/diffs_android/gitmaster171212_arm_host-info.patch


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Evandro Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems that ARM is the little CPU that could and is become ubiquitous,
> which makes it a candidate to run BOINC.  Now, granted that it doesn't have
> a stunning single-thread performance, yet BOINC used to run on processors
> of similar performance not too long ago.  However, it may be the ideal
> procesor to run NCI BOINC apps.
>
> Anyways, I've been playing with BOINC on the ARM that powers my NAS and it
> works quite alright and there already are a handful of projects supporting
> ARM ( http://bit.ly/Zxnv4W ).
>
> However, it seems that a few simple changes to the code are necessary at
> first to deal with properly identifying the host.  I propose this patch in
> attach to address this shortcoming.
>
> I haven't tested it on many ARM hosts, actually, just my one such host,
> but I based it on what the information provided by the Linux kernel for ARM
> that's very well defined and established.
>
> HTH
>
>
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