From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] ps3: get firmware version
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:25:38 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169843138.24996.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45BA4DD5.2030106@am.sony.com>
> Anyway, that is the need, the question is where to make it available. I thought
> /proc/cpuinfo already has the platform type (coming from the generic powerpc
> code), so it would be convenient for utilities to have the firmware version
> there too. I don't think parsing the dmsg is an option for minimal
> configs like bootloaders and distro installers, as they may not keep the boot
> messages around, and in general doesn't seem a reliable way. If you can make
> a suggestion, I'd like to hear it.
Yeah, /proc/cpuinfo is actually a fairly convenient place for that...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 2:40 [PATCH 10/14] ps3: get firmware version Geoff Levand
2007-01-25 3:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-25 6:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-01-26 2:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-26 18:52 ` Geoff Levand
2007-01-26 20:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-01-26 20:37 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-01-26 23:12 ` Geoff Levand
2007-01-26 23:27 ` Geoff Levand
2007-01-27 4:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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