From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757848AbcH3JTo (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:19:44 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:34398 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757812AbcH3JTl (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:19:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:19:35 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH ] arm64: cpuinfo: Add "model name" in /proc/cpuinfo for 64bit tasks also 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1472461345-28219-1-git-send-email-sumitg@nvidia.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 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