This is waiting for plucky/arm64 verification, otherwise is good to release
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debcrafters packages, which is subscribed to libgtop2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2116763 Title: AArch64: Processor Name in GNOME System Info is blank Status in libgtop2 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in libgtop2 source package in Noble: Fix Committed Status in libgtop2 source package in Plucky: Fix Committed Bug description: [ Impact ] * No information is shown on the Gnome System About page. This results in a not-well versed person to now know what CPU their system is running on. * This is because ARM systems do not offer an interface for readable names as x86_64 does. The readable names have to be inserted by some means of mapping the CPU implementer and part to a readable. Other programs such as lscpu do this by inserting a mapping table in the code. This patch extends the created data structure from libgtop by executing lscpu and parsing the relevant information. Only the requested readable name is added to the libgtop structure. [ Test Plan ] * Open the About page on a gnome ubuntu system - if you are on an arm64 system the `Processor` field is empty. * With the patch applied the Processor field is now filled with the readable name of the CPU and the amount of the cores. [ Where problems could occur ] * This patch touches the system information gathering for the cpu. So any program relying on this structure might end up with invalid data if they are relying on a fixed size. In the case of the about page it would show no information. [ Other Info ] * There is currently a merge request open for this change upstream, but upstream is blocked due to problems in the ci/cd pipeline: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgtop/-/merge_requests/51 * The patch has gone through a first review already [Original report] Per upstream bugs https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgtop/-/issues/60 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgtop/-/issues/66, libgtop (used by GNOME and Xfce) doesn't know how to read the processor name on non-x86 systems. /proc/cpuinfo which it uses doesn't contain the processor name on AArch64 systems. Instead it should read output from `lscpu`, or the SMBIOS processor table. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgtop2/+bug/2116763/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
