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Re: [PATCH] Add hwcap2 bits for POWER9
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 14:29:04 -0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add hwcap2 bits for POWER9
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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.
>
> Peter
>
>
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.