[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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