[PATCH] powerpc: Update AT_HWCAP2 bits

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Nov 20 18:56:00 GMT 2017


On 11/20/2017 06:17 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 20 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/20/2017 04:53 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> On Nov 20 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/17/2017 09:00 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>>>>> Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho<tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>  writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch will wait for the acceptance of the kernel patch [1] into
>>>>>> Linus' tree.
>>>>> Kernel patch has been merged, so I'm merging the glibc patch too:
>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5b0e2cb020085efe202123162502e0b551e49a0e
>>>>
>>>> Could we backport this to 2.26?  It's essentially a hardware errata
>>>> workaround, so perhaps it qualifies as a bugfix?
>>>
>>> Doesn't the _dl_powerpc_cap_flags change mean that this is a (libc
>>> internal) ABI change?
>>
>> Oops.  I probably replied to the wrong patch then.  I meant the related
>> patch which adds the flag to an installed header.
> 
> It does both, so you would have to split that off.

Sorry, I'm interested in the header file change.  Not sure if this was 
clear.

Thanks,
Florian



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