[PATCH] CAS DFP support
Jake Moilanen
moilanen at austin.ibm.com
Thu Nov 23 02:20:14 EST 2006
When booting a Power6 in compat mode, the DFP bit must be set in the
client architecture call, or else firmware will downgrade the compliance
to P5 compat mode, thus removing VMX and DFP instructions.
Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen at austin.ibm.com>
--- 2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c~ 2006-11-13 15:01:13.000000000
-0600
+++ 2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c 2006-11-21 18:38:27.000000000
-0600
@@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ static void __init early_cmdline_parse(v
/* Option vector 3: processor options supported */
#define OV3_FP 0x80 /* floating point */
#define OV3_VMX 0x40 /* VMX/Altivec */
+#define OV3_DFP 0x20 /* decimal floating point */
/* Option vector 5: PAPR/OF options supported */
#define OV5_LPAR 0x80 /* logical partitioning supported */
@@ -674,7 +675,7 @@ static unsigned char ibm_architecture_ve
/* option vector 3: processor options supported */
3 - 2, /* length */
0, /* don't ignore, don't halt */
- OV3_FP | OV3_VMX,
+ OV3_FP | OV3_VMX | OV3_DFP,
/* option vector 4: IBM PAPR implementation */
2 - 2, /* length */
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