[PATCH] powerpc: Enable VMX copy on PPC970 (G5)

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jan 21 11:25:27 AEDT 2016


There's no reason I'm aware of that the VMX copy loop shouldn't work on
PPC970. And in fact it seems to boot and generally be happy.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
index b118072670fb..f412666fafe2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ enum {
 	    CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2 | CPU_FTR_CTRL | CPU_FTR_ARCH_201 | \
 	    CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC_COMP | CPU_FTR_CAN_NAP | CPU_FTR_MMCRA | \
 	    CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ | CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS | \
-	    CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_DABRX)
+	    CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_DABRX | CPU_FTR_VMX_COPY)
 #define CPU_FTRS_POWER5	(CPU_FTR_USE_TB | CPU_FTR_LWSYNC | \
 	    CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2 | CPU_FTR_CTRL | \
 	    CPU_FTR_MMCRA | CPU_FTR_SMT | \
-- 
2.5.0



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