[RFC/PATCH 8/9] Make 64-bit cpu features defined on 32-bit

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Fri Nov 17 10:03:45 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 21:17 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:23:27 +1100 Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > It saves #ifdef'ing in callers if we at least define the 64-bit cpu
> > features for 32-bit also.
> 
> Does it matter that some of the 64 bit feature bit defines are 0 on 32
> bit?

Not for me, I just want to be able to call cpu_has_feature() on it. If
the feature is 0 it'll always return false.

cheers

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