[PATCH] Add hwcap2 bits for POWER9

Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho tuliom at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 12 02:16:37 AEDT 2016


Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella at linaro.org> writes:

> On 08-01-2016 13:36, Peter Bergner wrote:
>> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 11:25 -0200, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>>> Peter, this solves the issue you reported previously [1].
>>>
>>> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-12/msg00522.html
>> 
>> Agreed, thanks.  I'll also add the POWER9 support to the GCC side
>> of the patch now that the glibc code is upstream.
>
> I do not see these bits being added in kernel side yet and GLIBC usual
> only sync these kind of bits *after* they are included in kernel side.
> So I would advise to either get these pieces (kernel support and hwcap
> advertise) in kernel before 2.23 release, otherwise revert the patches.

Ack.
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https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-January/137763.html

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Tulio Magno



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