Hello,
I noticed that my patch to add Indigo2 support to /proc/cpuinfo never made
it into the kernel
[http://www.glue.umd.edu/~weave/patches/patch_indigo2_support]
I know Ralf said he'd like for the cpuinfo stuff to be completely
re-written and the afforementioned support be added along with a slew of
other features.
I have an interest in /proc/cpuinfo, with linux_logo being one of the few
programs that actively parses it. Linus has always ignored any of my
attempted cleanups, apparently on the premise that "if it's not
super-broken don't fix it". So I was a bit hesitant to start such an
ambitious re-writing of the involved code, especially since I no longer
have access to the Indigo2 machine I was working with.
Well, this is a round-about way of asking, should I try to get my
originaly patch included again, or should I try to scrape together some
time to work on the more complicated problem? Hopefully I'll get a
summer-job that lets me work on such things full time, instead of working
on the sgi-linux stuff during my breaks...
Vince
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