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[Michi Henning <michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks, I'm looking for some advice for how to figure out the phone model we are running on.

Specifically, we are having major grief with gstreamer. On a Nexus 4, we can run two processes side by side that each use a single gstreamer pipeline (at least most of the time). On a BQ, we can run only one, otherwise, things crash, hang, silently deliver the wrong information without an error, etc.

So, by looking at /proc/cpuinfo, I can tell a BQ from, say, a Nexus 4. On a BQ, I get:

Hardware        : MT6582

On a Nexus 4, I get:

Hardware	: QCT APQ8064 MAKO

Now, this is the information I need, and I can set things up such that they work based on that.

But having to parse the output of /proc/cpuinfo sucks majorly. It's brittle and just awful.

I tried using QDeviceInfo (even though it's unofficial), but there don't appear to be any methods in there that deliver the hardware string I need.

Any suggestions as to how I can get at this information without having to parse /proc/cpuinfo and mucking around with regex and the like?

Thanks,

Michi.