Subject: [PATCHv5 0/3] Introduce the /proc/socinfo and use it to export OMAP data

From: [email-masked] (Ryan Mallon)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:27:34 +1300

On 03/02/2011 02:19 PM, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On 03/01/2011 05:13 PM, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Saravana Kannan
>> <[email-masked]>  wrote:

<snip>

>> What would an "arch" file mean? The name of the soc platform?
> 
> The arch file would pretty much be the "xxxx" from arch/arm/mach-xxxx or
> similar paths. If that info is already available elsewhere, then that
> file is not needed. I proposed using the arch since that will remove the
> need to maintain some database of unique/reserved names/numbers for each
> implementation of socinfo (like the machinetypes list we have).

/proc/cpuinfo already tells you what the CPU is, which gives more
information than just the architecture name.

Why is the arch information even required by userspace?

~Ryan

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