[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Add POWER9 cputable entry

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Feb 18 21:37:07 AEDT 2016


On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 14:32 +1100, Michael Neuling wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 22:09 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 16:07 +1100, Michael Neuling wrote:
> >
> > > Add a cputable entry for POWER9.  More code is required to actually
> > > boot and run on a POWER9 but this gets the base piece in which we
> > > can
> > > start building on.
> > >
> > > Copies over from POWER8 except for:
> > > - Adds a new CPU_FTR_ARCH_30 bit to start hanging new architecture
> >
> > ARCH thirty?
> >
> > Would CPU_FTR_ARCH_3 read better?
> >
> > Or CPU_FTR_ARCH_3_00 ?
>
> The actual architecture book used to say 2.07 but now says just 3.0.
> Hence why I picked 30 vs 207.

Yeah I get the logic.

> That being said, I don't really care what we call it.

I like CPU_FTR_ARCH_3.

cheers



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