From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nishanth Menon Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: update cpuinfo to print CPU model name Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:02:44 -0600 Message-ID: <20130129160243.GA3389@kahuna> References: <1359474865-15408-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1359474865-15408-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ruslan Bilovol Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, eduardo.valentin@ti.com List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 17:54-20130129, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: > Hi, > > The following patches update cpuinfo to print CPU > model name for ARM. First patch exactly makes needed > changes for ARM architecture. > Second patch adds this ability to OMAP4 SoCs. > > This adds a common approach to show SoC name. > > Looks like there were few attempts to do similar > changes to cpuinfo without any luck. > > So - comments are welcome > > Ruslan Bilovol (2): > ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print CPU model name > ARM: OMAP4: setup CPU model name during ID initialisation We had an discussion on similar lines but a generic suggestion: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/98720/ SoCinfo framework which was supposed to introduce this Would'nt that be a better approach to take than an OMAP only solution? Ccying eduardo who had driven this for some time. -- Regards, Nishanth Menon