From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754170AbcESKtb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 06:49:31 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:34184 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752153AbcESKta (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 06:49:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 11:49:26 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: x00195127 Cc: will.deacon@arm.com, puck.chen@hisilicon.com, suzhuangluan@hisilicon.com, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Mark Rutland Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpuinfo: add AArch64 & elf platform for app compatibility Message-ID: <20160519104925.GL22378@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1463625873-60016-1-git-send-email-saberlily.xia@hisilicon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1463625873-60016-1-git-send-email-saberlily.xia@hisilicon.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:44:33AM +0800, x00195127 wrote: > we find that some apps will read cpuinfo when start up, > they need the string as follows: > "Processor : AArch64 Processor rev 0 (aarch64)" > > Then thay could load the corresponding libs. But now > arm64 platform's cpuinfo don't has this now, so > we need add this. I have the same question as Martinez: what are those apps? If they are 64-bit apps, they can always assume AArch64 processor. -- Catalin