On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:41:58AM +0530, kaiwan.billimo...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 10:01 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 05:21:30PM +0530, kaiwan.billimo...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 15:04 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > >
> > > Sure, lets try for a generic ver!
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > > Thanks for your help on this..
> >
> > No problem.
> >
> > > As your experience woth the R Pi shows, we may have to just resort to
> > > building a
> > > generic framework of sorts, letting folks "plugin" appropriate "truth
> > > values"
> > > for their particular platform; this way, we support as much as we can for
> > > now
> > > and, going forward, it's generic.
> > > As of right now though, am unsure what this "generic framework" is..
> >
> > ATM the best I can come up with is having two flags
> >
> > --page-offset-32bit=0xc0000000 (exactly as we have now)
> > --32-bit
> >
> > Now for the klunky bit, I can only see two options
> >
> > 1. Default to 64 bit, for 32 bit scan require one of the above options
> > to be set.
>
> Yes, agreed..
> >
> > 2. Parse config file for all architectures, if CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET is set
> > us it.
> >
> > I particularly don't like option 2. If we can find a reliable way to get
> > the architecture the we have a better option. At the moment the method
> > we use relies on the architecture of the machine that the Perl binary
> > was built on (AFAICT).
> >
> > (/usr/bin/arch does not work on RPi either)
>
> Right, reg arch: nor on some of the Yocto platforms I tested.
> >
> > I'm happy with option 1 unless there is a better proposal.
> > thanks,
> > Tobin.
>
> Okay, I can start working on the approach above. So, that implies that the
> is_supported_architecture sub (and it's descendants) are now redundant,
> correct?
We still need it for differentiating between 64 bit architectures. So
far it appears to work (x86_64 and ppc64).
> Also, I think we can perhaps still make use of the 'uname -m' to advantage:
>
> 1. A scenario: the user runs the script with no options; we default to 64-bit.
> But, the platform is actually 32-bit. So, we run a sanity check regardless -
> if
> we find that the platform is indeed 32-bit but the user has not run with the
> --32-bit (or --page-offset-32bit) option switch(es), we could:
> - (a) emit a noisy Warning message to stderr and continue, ("batch mode"),
> OR
Yeah, I see no problem with this.
> - (b) fail, with the error message and a failure code.
>
> Of course if we go with (a), the results will be meaningless; so, just
> failing might be better.
> Again, I realize that all this will only work if detection of 32-bit actually
> works!
> I'll take a stab at this..
>
> 2. Modify the show_detected_architecture sub to use it (for 'debug' case).
Yep, I say keep it for debugging.
thanks,
Tobin.
