From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:32:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: remove name from machine_desc for DT platforms In-Reply-To: <5283DB34.9050301@gmail.com> References: <1383511801-31682-1-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com> <5283DB34.9050301@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201311141332.58498.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 13 November 2013, Rob Herring wrote: > I'm not inclined to expand cpuinfo and prior attempts to add more info > to cpuinfo like SoC name have failed. The differences between x86 and > arm cpuinfo already cause issues for arm. lscpu does not really work on arm. Well, they turned into drivers/base/soc.c, which adds the information in a structured way in sysfs, but is only used on a couple of platforms. > I'd actually prefer If you really want more system info, then go read > /proc/device-tree. Good point. Arnd