Hello All
I am not very sure that it is readprofile application problem. I downloaded
readprofile source and I compiled it. It worked fine on x86 machine running
2.4.7-10 kernel. I cross compiled it for xscale processor running 2.4.18 it
is not working.
Any Input?
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Andy Pfiffer wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 15:41, Shesha@asu.edu wrote:
> > I am running 2.4.18 kernel for ARM. I have one of the boot parameters
> > "profile=2". The size of the /proc/profile file is shown as 16MB. But when I
> > execute "readprofile" the output is ...
> > 0 total nan
> >
> > If I cat the file it just give me a ".". Can anyone suggest what i am doing
> > wrong?
>
> [ I swear I was just talking about this problem with someone else... ]
>
> 1. /proc/profile is a binary file. cat won't show you anything
> meaningful.
>
> 2. the 0 output by readprofile is a problem with the automatic
> byte-order detection heuristic built into the code. Try invoking
> readprofile with the "-n" option, and see if your problem goes away.
>
> FYI: For those that might also run into this, the essence of the problem
> is this piece of code in readprofile.c (fragmented for clarity):
>
> "optNative" is 0.
> "buf" is an unsigned int *.
>
>
> if (!optNative) {
> int entries = len/sizeof(*buf);
> int big = 0,small = 0,i;
> unsigned *p;
>
> for (p = buf+1; p < buf+entries; p++)
> if (*p) {
> if (*p >= 1 << (sizeof(*buf)/2)) big++;
> else small++;
> }
> if (big > small) {
> fprintf(stderr,"Assuming reversed byte order. "
> "Use -n to force native byte order.\n");
> <snipped>
> .
> .
> .
> }
> }
>
> Based on my read of the code, "big" will be incremented if *p >= 4,
> otherwise "small" will be incremented. I can't see how this would ever
> detect the byte order...
>
> Werner proposed this as a solution, but it could still fail to correctly
> detect the byteorder (although with much less frequency):
>
>
>
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