On 17 May 2013 14:26, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 17 May 2013 14:03, Mans Rullgard <mans.rullg...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 17 May 2013 13:30, Renato Golin <renato.go...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> <rant>Why don't we print full information like Intel?</rant>
>>
>> The part you snipped:
>>
>>>> CPU implementer      : 0x41
>>>> CPU architecture: 7
>>>> CPU variant  : 0x0
>>>> CPU part     : 0xc05
>>>> CPU revision : 1
>>
>> That says Cortex-A5 r0p1 loud and clear.  What info do you think
>> is missing?
>
> The bit where it actually says "Cortex-A5" rather than requiring
> you to know or fish about in TRMs for part, variant and revision
> field meanings...

I suppose those who have a need for this information already know
how to interpret those values.  Translating the ARM IDs to model
names would be rather trivial.

> On Intel you get a human-readable vendor_id and model name.

That's because Intel CPUs have the friendly string encoded in the
silicon and returned by the CPUID instruction.  Also, you probably
still have to go and look up exactly what an i7-3632QM (what I'm
typing this on) is.

-- 
Mans Rullgard / mru

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