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Re: [PATCH rsa/power8_partial]
- From: "Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Ryan S Arnold <rsa at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:16:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH rsa/power8_partial]
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/24/2013 05:14 PM, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>>>> @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ PROCINFO_CLASS const char _dl_powerpc_platforms[13][12]
>>>> [PPC_PLATFORM_PPC405] = "ppc405",
>>>> [PPC_PLATFORM_PPC440] = "ppc440",
>>>> [PPC_PLATFORM_PPC464] = "ppc464",
>>>> - [PPC_PLATFORM_PPC476] = "ppc476"
>>>> + [PPC_PLATFORM_PPC476] = "ppc476",
>>>> + [PPC_PLATFORM_POWER8] = "power8"
>>>
>>> I'd recommend always using a trailing comma so that the next addition
>>> doesn't have to touch the existing line.
>>>
>>
>> Pushed under the following commit, with the ',' addition:
>>
>> commit 2f063a6e843c788a05667e6d362d229b3b671920
>> Author: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Date: Mon Jun 24 15:33:32 2013 -0500
>>
>> PowerPC: Enable POWER8 platform sans hwcap bits.
>>
>>
>> I'll push an update for elf/elf.h to add AT_HWCAP2 shortly.
>
> Does the push for AT_HWCAP2 complete the Power 8 enablement blockers? :-)
I think so, but Richard may still want GLRO(dl_hwcap2) enablement..
but he's said there's no reason that can't be backported.
Ryan