[ Impact ] * No information is shown on the Gnome System About page. This results in a not-well versed person to now know what CPU their system is running on.
* This is because ARM systems do not offer an interface for readable names as x86_64 does. The readable names have to be inserted by some means of mapping the CPU implementer and part to a readable. Other programs such as lscpu do this by inserting a mapping table in the code. This patch extends the created data structure from libgtop by executing lscpu and parsing the relevant information. Only the requested readable name is added to the libgtop structure. [ Test Plan ] * Open the About page on a gnome ubuntu system - if you are on an arm64 system the `Processor` field is empty. * With the patch applied the Processor field is now filled with the readable name of the CPU and the amount of the cores. [ Where problems could occur ] * This patch touches the system information gathering for the cpu. So any program relying on this structure might end up with invalid data if they are relying on a fixed size. In the case of the about page it would show no information. [ Other Info ] * There is currently a merge request open for this change upstream, but upstream is blocked due to problems in the ci/cd pipeline: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgtop/-/merge_requests/51 * The patch has gone through a first review already ** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~aglinserer/ubuntu/+source/libgtop2/+git/libgtop2/+merge/492035 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2116763 Title: AArch64: Processor Name in GNOME System Info is blank To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgtop2/+bug/2116763/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
