Probing for native availability of isel from userspace

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Sep 25 10:50:51 EST 2012


On 09/24/2012 07:47:28 PM, malc wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:55 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > The ISA says that isel is "Category: Phased-In (sV2.06)" -- are  
> there
> > > any 2.06 chips that don't have it?
> >
> > I believe "malc" is interested in knowing about pre-2.06 chips that  
> have
> > it.
> >
> 
> That too, but also what 's' prefix means.

I think it's trying to say that it's phased-in for server but mandatory  
for embedded, though I don't see that exact notation used anywhere else  
in the document.

-Scott


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