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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:55:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event
	description in sysfs
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:39:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Furthermore, /proc/cpuinfo should be enough information to come up with
> an arch specific set of events to be translated into raw.

Unfortunately, it isn't.  CPU identification has become a fairly murky
business on ARM that the information exported from /proc/cpuinfo can
no longer precisely identify the CPU itself.

For example, we just treat Cortex A8 and A9 as "ARMv7" because from the
kernel's point of view, they're the same.