[PATCH v3 2/6] powerpc: Add PVR & CPU name to hardware description

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Sep 30 18:27:05 AEST 2022


Add the PVR and CPU name to the hardware description, which is printed
at boot and in case of an oops.

eg: Hardware name: ... POWER8E (raw) 0x4b0201

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

v3: Drop "cpu:" and "pvr:" tags for brevity.

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 2e7a04dab2f7..09f07cc57216 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include <linux/libfdt.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/pgtable.h>
+#include <linux/seq_buf.h>
 
 #include <asm/rtas.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
@@ -819,6 +820,9 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
 
 	dt_cpu_ftrs_scan();
 
+	// We can now add the CPU name & PVR to the hardware description
+	seq_buf_printf(&ppc_hw_desc, "%s 0x%04lx ", cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, mfspr(SPRN_PVR));
+
 	/* Retrieve CPU related informations from the flat tree
 	 * (altivec support, boot CPU ID, ...)
 	 */
-- 
2.37.3



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