Re: [PATCH 2/2] lscpu-arm: Remove the "Ampere-1a" part.

On 7/14/25 7:16 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 02:16:48PM -0700, Paul Benoit wrote:
>> Remove the "Ampere-1a" part.  On newer Ampere Computing systems, the
>> system/model name will be obtained from /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/machine,
>> that is populated with the ARM SMC CC SOC_ID Name.
> 
> If I understand correctly, there are old systems without
> /sys/.../soc0/machine, right? The change will remove Ampere-1a from
> the lscpu output. This sounds backward incompatible.

Thats a good point, but as I understand it, Ampere hasn't been happy 
with the string that is there.

If its OK to break whatever scripts/etc might depend on it at the 
moment, why not just update the string.

Then invert the check so that the /sys/bus entry is preferred?