[PATCH] powerpc: Use the ibm,pa-features property where available

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon May 1 16:51:21 EST 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 14:04 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Forthcoming IBM machines will have a "ibm,pa-features" property on CPU
> nodes, that contains bits indicating which optional architecture
> features are implemented by the CPU.  This adds code to use the
> property, if present, to update our CPU feature bitmaps.
> 
> This is based on a patch by Will Schmidt <will_schmidt at vnet.ibm.com>

We should also remove all the bits potentially found in the property
before hand...

Ben.





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