Bug 363708

Summary: Solid does not detect CPU's on ARM
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-solid Reporter: Rohan Garg <rohan>
Component: generalAssignee: Lukáš Tinkl <lukas>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: christoph, kdelibs-bugs-null, meven29
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.22.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Rohan Garg 2016-05-30 14:41:22 UTC
Hi
I have a ARM board ( a ODROID C1 ) and neither solid-hardware list nor Solid::Device::listFromType(Solid::DeviceInterface::Processor) list the processors on the device.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Call solid-hardware list
2. Check for CPU entries


Actual Results:  
No CPU's detected

Expected Results:  
CPU's are detected
Comment 1 Méven Car 2020-11-25 11:41:56 UTC
Indeed ARM cpuinfo has a different format to those of x86 on ARM :/

On ARM system 
```
cat /proc/cpuinfo 
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 2400.00
 
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 2400.00
 
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc07
CPU revision : 5
 
Hardware : sun8i
Revision : 0000
Serial : 5400503583203c3c040e
```

On Intel
```
cat /proc/cpuinfo    
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 142
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
stepping        : 10
microcode       : 0xe0
cpu MHz         : 800.106
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 22
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp md_clear flush_l1d
vmx flags       : vnmi preemption_timer invvpid ept_x_only ept_ad ept_1gb flexpriority tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest ple pml ept_mode_based_exec
bugs            : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs itlb_multihit srbds
bogomips        : 3999.93
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
....
```

We might want to use https://linux.die.net/man/1/lscpu instead of parsing /proc/cpuinfo directly.
Comment 2 Méven Car 2020-11-25 11:44:33 UTC
With `LANG=en lscpu --json` but it is not always installed.
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2025-03-08 21:05:25 UTC
Should be fixed with

commit abddb20bfcc962f4bb096762e401ce98e2aeefa9
Author: Alexey Minnekhanov <alexeymin@postmarketos.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 26 21:40:33 2021 +0300

    Implement ARM specific CPU info
    
    In ARM, /proc/cpuinfo does not contain strings, it only
    contains IDs. We need to convert them into vendor/model
    human-readable strings manually.
    
    Inspiration was taken from util-linux's lscpu utility.
    
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Minnekhanov <alexeymin@postmarketos.org>