[PATCH][V2] Add support for power9 in ibm_architecture_vec

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 15:47:57 AEST 2016



On 16/06/16 15:31, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH][V2] Add support for power9 in ibm_architecture_vec
> 
> Can you use "[PATCH v2]", my scripts don't grok your format.
> 
> On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 14:54 +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>
>> On 16/06/16 10:09, Balbir Singh wrote:
> 
>>> Yes, my bad.. I'll respin. I thought I had it, but I clearly did not
>>>
> 
> Please don't send patches in replies like this, I have to manually clean the
> above up before committing.

Yep.. I started this recently just to keep the thread rolling, but point
noted. Thanks!

>  
>> V2: Update the vector length for OV1 after adding 3.0 support
> 
> This should go below the "---" line so that it's stripped from the history.
> 

Done!

>> The PVR list has been updated and IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET.
>> This provides the cpu version supported to the hypervisor
> 
> Can you give me more explanation of the practical effects of the patch. eg. This
> allows guests kernels to signal to the hypervisor that they support ISA 3.0
> features.
> 

Will do


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