Re: CPUINFO - Hardware vs Machine

[Kristoffer E. <kri...@ho...>]

Greetings,

My main idea was a quick way to get it working with libopie2. Setting 
machine into Jornada6xx looks alot nice although it doesnt change anything.
As for the Hardware line, I understand what you are saying and considering 
I've only seen one example where its actually used (Libopie2), I believe its 
probobly better to adjust their detection mechanism than moving stuff about.

Thx for info


>From: Paul Mundt <le...@li...>
>To: Kristoffer Ericson <kri...@ho...>
>CC: lin...@li...
>Subject: Re: CPUINFO - Hardware vs Machine
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:40:26 +0900
>
>On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:58:44PM +0000, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> > Currently "machine" is set to HP6xx and changing it to Jornada6xx would 
>make
> > it more similiar to the Jornada720 line. Im just wondering about one 
>thing.
> > On most PDA's running linux (Jornada7xx and Zaurus for example). They 
>also
> > contain a Hardware line, what exactly is the difference between those 
>lines
> > if any?
> >
>cpuinfo is handled by the architecture, the examples you've cited are
>simply how ARM does it, rather than any real "standard". Things like
>glibc have a habit of parsing the data from there for various things, and
>it's generally not worth making changes unless it's clear that there's
>some point in doing so.
>
> > And how can one create a hardware line for the HP6xx?
> >
>If you have a use case for why you would need this, it's something that
>could be considered. "Because ARM does it" is however not a valid use
>case. Note however that there is no way to differentiate between
>620/680/690, since they've all been converged in to a single machine
>type.

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