[PATCH] ARM: dt: Use the 'model' field for printing the hardware revision
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Tue May 28 08:15:07 EDT 2013
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:04:30AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> When booting a device tree kernel, we get the following output from
> 'cat /proc/cpuinfo':
>
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
> BogoMIPS : 531.66
> Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls
> CPU implementer : 0x41
> CPU architecture: 7
> CPU variant : 0x2
> CPU part : 0xc08
> CPU revision : 5
>
> Hardware : Freescale i.MX51 (Device Tree Support)
> Revision : 0000
> Serial : 0000000000000000
>
> The Hardware line does not really describe the hardware type, as it is reading
> the information from the dt 'machine' field.
>
> In the dt case, read the 'model' field instead, so that we can have a better
> description output as follows:
>
> Hardware : Freescale i.MX51 Babbage Board
>
> The hardware output string is unchanged for the non-dt kernel case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h | 1 +
> arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c | 15 ++++++++-------
> arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++-
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h
> index 308ad7d..113d4af 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct smp_operations;
> struct machine_desc {
> unsigned int nr; /* architecture number */
> const char *name; /* architecture name */
> + const char *model; /* architectute model */
s/architectute/architecture/
Is it really needed to add a new field here? Alternatively overwrite
name or do something like:
if (this_is_a_device_tree_machine)
seq_printf(m, "Hardware\t: %s\n", get_model_from_dt());
else
seq_printf(m, "Hardware\t: %s\n", machine_name);
Best regards
Uwe
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