Joachim, After I posted the patch I wondered if I should have qualified the calls to sysconf() to figure the cache out with HAVE_SYSCONF or some such autoconf variable.
Thanks for the review. -- __________________________________________________________________ Evandro Menezes Austin, TX http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com >________________________________ > From: Joachim Fritzsch <[email protected]> >To: Evandro Menezes <[email protected]>; David Anderson (UCBerkeley) ><[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Rom Walton ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:40 AM >Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC on ARM > > >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 >> >> >>-- >>__________________________________________________________________ >>Evandro Menezes Austin, TX http://rosarynovice.stblogs.com >>_______________________________________________ >>boinc_dev mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >>To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >>(near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> > > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
