Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: cpuinfo: make /proc/cpuinfo more human-readable

[Jon Masters]

On 10/20/2017 01:24 PM, Jon Masters wrote:

> 1). The first thing people do when they get an Arm server is to cat
> /proc/cpuinfo. They then come complaining that it's not like x86. They
> can't get the output their looking for and this results in bug filing,
> and countless hours on phone calls discussing over and over again.
> Worse, there are some parts of the stack that really need this.

Within 6 hours of sending this, I get a ping about this week's "Works On
Arm" newsletter and...people reporting bugs with not getting CPU
capabilities in /proc/cpuinfo. This madness is going to end. Soon.

Jon.

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