[PATCH] powerpc: Add basic support for POWER9 sans hwcap.

[Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho]

Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 15:44 -0200, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
> wrote:
>> Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> 
>> > This patch adds the minimum changes for supporting the POWER9
>> > processor.
>> 
>> Pushed as b1f19b8.
>> 
>
> I have no problems with this being committed, but I do ask that
> if we cannot get the HWCAP bits settled (waiting on the kernel
> people) before the next glibc release, that we back this out
> before the release.  I don't think having the AT_PLATFORM and
> AT_HWCAP/AT_HWCAP2 masks out of sync is a good thing for the
> release.

Could you elaborate more on why do you think this isn't a good thing for the
release, please?

-- 
Tulio Magno