[PATCHv2] powerpc: ABI change - add HWCAP/HWCAP2/platform info to TCB

[Carlos Eduardo Seo]

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Carlos Eduardo Seo
Software Engineer - Linux on Power Toolchain
cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com

> On Aug 12, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> After the original discussion on this matter, I decided to change the patch. Main differences:
> 
> - versioned symbol to track this change.
> - no ‘set’ API in ppc.h
> - no per-thread initialization
> - added platform number (derived from AT_PLATFORM string) for future implementation of __builtin_cpu_is() in gcc.
> 
> Tested on ppc32, ppc64 and ppc64le, both dynamic and static cases.
> 
> Please review.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> Carlos Eduardo Seo
> Software Engineer - Linux on Power Toolchain
> cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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> <hwcap-tcb.patch>