From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH ] arm64: cpuinfo: Add "model name" in /proc/cpuinfo for 64bit tasks also Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:19:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20160830091935.GD5163@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1472461345-28219-1-git-send-email-sumitg@nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1472461345-28219-1-git-send-email-sumitg@nvidia.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sumit Gupta Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, yang.shi@linaro.org, steve.capper@linaro.org, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, julien.grall@arm.com, bbasu@nvidia.com, james.morse@arm.com, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 02:32:25PM +0530, Sumit Gupta wrote: > Removed restriction of displaying model name for 32 bit tasks only. > Because of this Processor details were not displayed in > "System setting -> Details" in Ubuntu model name display is generic > and can be printed for 64 bit also. > > model name : ARMv8 Processor rev X (v8l) > > Signed-off-by: Sumit Gupta You didn't give a reason why this is needed. For 32-bit tasks, we did it for backwards compatibility with code checking for it. -- Catalin