[PATCH] powerpc/64s: dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup option

[Michael Ellerman]

Paul Clarke <pc at us.ibm.com> writes:

> On 05/11/2017 06:24 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Provide a dt_cpu_ftrs= cmdline option to disable the dt_cpu_ftrs CPU
>> feature discovery, and fall back to the "cputable" based version.
>
> This boat has already sailed, I think, but "ftrs"?

What you think vowels grow on trees! :)

> Was it too difficult to type "features"?

For the command line option we could spell out features.

But should we also expand "dt", and "cpu" ?

device_tree_central_processing_unit_features=off

:P

> This seems like something that should be easy and intuitive to find
> and understand.

Maybe. Ideally no one will ever use it, certainly not end users, it's
primarily intended for developers doing bring-up.

cheers