ARM: Better decode CPU Model Name

Instead of always returning "ARM64", the CPU model name will now be the
CPU vendor followed by the core name and revisio, eg.

ARM Limited Cortex-A57 r1p2

hostinfoPosix arm64 hack to always return "armv8 unknown" is removed,
and will forward the CPU Model Name.

diff --git a/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c b/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
index 6c7bf358f91a0351e5e8fa5de3f4613fd60b2f50..ca161e23edf0c71ea308c89b69e0e19708ae6873 100644 (file)
--- a/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
+++ b/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
@@ -2433,28 +2433,19 @@ Hostinfo_GetCpuDescription(uint32 cpuNumber)  // IN:
    return HostinfoGetSysctlStringAlloc("machdep.cpu.brand_string");
 #elif defined(__FreeBSD__)
    return HostinfoGetSysctlStringAlloc("hw.model");
-#else
-#ifdef VMX86_SERVER
-#ifdef VM_ARM_64
-   return strdup("armv8 unknown");
-#else
-   if (HostType_OSIsVMK()) {
-      char mName[48];
+#elif defined VMX86_SERVER
+   /* VMKernel treats mName as an in/out parameter so terminate it. */
+   char mName[64] = { 0 };
 
-      /* VMKernel treats mName as an in/out parameter so terminate it. */
-      mName[0] = '\0';
-      if (VMKernel_GetCPUModelName(cpuNumber, mName,
-                                   sizeof(mName)) == VMK_OK) {
-         mName[sizeof(mName) - 1] = '\0';
+   if (VMKernel_GetCPUModelName(cpuNumber, mName,
+                                sizeof(mName)) == VMK_OK) {
+      mName[sizeof(mName) - 1] = '\0';
 
-         return strdup(mName);
-      }
-
-      return NULL;
+      return strdup(mName);
    }
-#endif // VM_ARM_64
-#endif // VMX86_SERVER
 
+   return NULL;
+#else
    return HostinfoGetCpuInfo(cpuNumber, "model name");
 #endif
 }