[PATCH 6/9] powerpc: Add VSX CPU feature

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Wed Jun 18 10:47:34 EST 2008


Add a VSX CPU feature.  Also add code to detect if VSX is available
from the device tree.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---

 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c     |    3 +++
 include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h |   13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -609,6 +609,9 @@ static struct feature_property {
 	{"altivec", 0, CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC},
 	{"ibm,vmx", 1, CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC},
 #endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
+#ifdef CONFIG_VSX
+	{"ibm,vmx", 2, CPU_FTR_VSX, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX},
+#endif /* CONFIG_VSX */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 	{"ibm,dfp", 1, 0, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_DFP},
 	{"ibm,purr", 1, CPU_FTR_PURR, 0},
Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #define PPC_FEATURE_HAS_DFP		0x00000400
 #define PPC_FEATURE_POWER6_EXT		0x00000200
 #define PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_06		0x00000100
+#define PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX		0x00000080
 
 #define PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE		0x00000002
 #define PPC_FEATURE_PPC_LE		0x00000001
@@ -181,6 +182,7 @@ extern void do_feature_fixups(unsigned l
 #define CPU_FTR_DSCR			LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0002000000000000)
 #define CPU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT		LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0004000000000000)
 #define CPU_FTR_NO_SLBIE_B		LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0008000000000000)
+#define CPU_FTR_VSX			LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0010000000000000)
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
@@ -199,6 +201,17 @@ extern void do_feature_fixups(unsigned l
 #define PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC_COMP    0
 #endif
 
+/* We only set the VSX features if the kernel was compiled with VSX
+ * support
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_VSX
+#define CPU_FTR_VSX_COMP	CPU_FTR_VSX
+#define PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX_COMP PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX
+#else
+#define CPU_FTR_VSX_COMP	0
+#define PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX_COMP    0
+#endif
+
 /* We only set the spe features if the kernel was compiled with spe
  * support
  */



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