[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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