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Re: [PATCH] PPC Add Power6x Support to dl-procinfo
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Steven Munroe <munroesj at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba dot org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:45:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC Add Power6x Support to dl-procinfo
- References: <45580119.4010408@us.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:22:33PM -0600, Steven Munroe wrote:
> The POWER6 processor includes addtional instructions beyond the 2.05 ISA
> (Move Float to GRP, Move Float from GRP) which are available as the
> default on unmanaged systems (single partition systems identified by
> the AT_PLATFORM="power6x"). For Partitioned systems those instructions
> are disabled by default (AT_PLATFORM="power6"). Paul Mackerras recently
> posted the power6, power6x kernel support:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=7989
Shouldn't arch_2_05 and PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_05 be renamed to
power6 and PPC_FEATURE_POWER6 respectively?
Jakub