[PATCH] arch/powerpc: advertise ISA2.07, HTM, DSCR, EBB and ISEL bits in HWCAP2

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed May 8 06:49:38 EST 2013


On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 13:33 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > Similarily, Nish, you may need to check that we remove those bits if
> > pHyp has the partition in a mode that doesn't support them (P7
> > compatibility for example) for migration purposes.
> 
> Yep, I'll need to talk with Mikey about this part. Will be a follow-on
> patch if needed. Minimally, the bit defines will stay the same, which is
> the important part to get going right now.

Actually in such a mode we'd get a back-version architected PVR so we
should be fine now that I think twice, but of course that need to be
tested.

Cheers,
Ben.




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