[PATCH] PPC Add Power6x Support to dl-procinfo

Steven Munroe munroesj@us.ibm.com
Mon Nov 13 04:29:00 GMT 2006


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

Also we need to add the hardware Decimal Floating Point feature to 
AT_HWCAP and update the HWCAP_IMPORTANT to include PPC_FEATURE_HAS_DFP).




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