Re: [PATCH] ARM: /proc/cpuinfo: Use DT machine name when possible

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Wed Jun 18 2014 - 16:20:32 EST


On Wednesday 18 June 2014 22:00:54 Russell King - ARM Linux
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > So without this patch DT migration for Nokia N900 cannot be
> > done without breaking userspace - which is not
> > acceptable...
> >
> > Also I still did not know why DT kernel does not report
> > Revision number which is passed by bootloader via atags.
> > Any idea?
>
> It was a concious decision by the DT people to exclude most of
> the ATAGs which provide that information. Only memory
> information and command line ATAGs are merged into DT. Every
> other tag is ignored (as there's no place for it in DT.)

So how to read Revision and Serial number in DT based kernel?

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Pali RohÃr
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