improve/add model name for arm linux cpus

[theofficialgman]

Description

arm cpus currently fallback to the standard cpu detection

this allows to get the friendly name (Cortex A-57 for example)

[theofficialgman]

I've make this PR as well https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pull/1928, with both integrated you can see some before and after pictures: Before: After:

[theofficialgman]

@dylanaraps any comment on this and my other PR? https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pull/1928

[theofficialgman]

@dylanaraps anything I can do to get these changes merged?

[dylanaraps]

Look at the surrounding code and how it makes use of /proc/cpuinfo. Does the ARM model information not exist in this file?

[theofficialgman]

it does not, and thats the problem (well it does, but usually its the arm standard name like you see in the photo ARMv8 Processor rev 1 (v8l)). I did it this way because it guarantees to get the info necessary

[Miepee]

Just wanted to say that this also works on Android. Before / master: After / PR:

Likely to be out of scope for this PR, but I've also seen an alternative way to get the CPU name on Android. OEMs can opt-in so one can view the CPU in the system settings, in which case it's possible to get it via getprop. However, there doesn't seem to be any standardization as to which field contains the actual CPU name and everyone seems to implement it under a different property name.

[theofficialgman]

@dylanaraps any comment on this and my other PR? #1928

@dylanaraps can this be merged? seems to be a nice change for arm cpus on linux/android. as well as my other PR fallback for integrated non-pcie gpus

[hykilpikonna]

Look at the surrounding code and how it makes use of /proc/cpuinfo. Does the ARM model information not exist in this file?

For most Android systems, the vendor patches /proc/cpuinfo so that it contains the processor model as plain text:

On these Android systems, lscpu will not work, showing - as the model name.

However, for Linux installed on ARM devices, /proc/cpuinfo is untouched, and the Hardware section will only contain the binary code for the processor, therefore it needs to be decoded with lscpu based on a lookup table, something like:

So my solution (https://github.com/hykilpikonna/hyfetch/commit/42d6aa490afa171cc92224b0f0b963e56e2afd94) is to check whether the system is Android, use /proc/cpuinfo if it is, and use lscpu if it's not.

Check #2139 for an updated pull request.