[PATCH] powerpc: Show utsname->machine in boot-up banner

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Apr 15 12:17:07 AEST 2015


Currently we print "Starting Linux PPC64" at boot. But we don't mention
anywhere whether the kernel is big or little endian.

If we print the utsname->machine value instead we get either "ppc64" or
"ppc64le" which is much more informative, eg:

  Starting Linux ppc64le #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 12:12:20 AEST 2015

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 49f553bbb360..dfbeabad523b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -522,7 +522,8 @@ void __init setup_system(void)
 	smp_release_cpus();
 #endif
 
-	pr_info("Starting Linux PPC64 %s\n", init_utsname()->version);
+	pr_info("Starting Linux %s %s\n", init_utsname()->machine,
+		 init_utsname()->version);
 
 	pr_info("-----------------------------------------------------\n");
 	pr_info("ppc64_pft_size    = 0x%llx\n", ppc64_pft_size);
-- 
2.1.0



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