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Re: [PATCH] Add hwcap2 bits for POWER9
- From: "Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho" <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, linuxppc-dev at lists dot ozlabs dot org, Steve Munroe <munroesj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc:
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:16:37 -0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add hwcap2 bits for POWER9
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Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:
> 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.
>
> 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.
Ack.
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Tulio Magno