Excerpts from Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho's message of July 16, 2022 6:17
am:
> Segher Boessenkool writes:
>
>> That is a usability problem. Can it be fixed, or will that create its
>> own compatibility problems? In practice I mean. If it is, the C
>> libraries could fix it up, for new p
Take the arm64 HWCAP documentation file and adjust it for powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
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Thanks for the comments.
v2:
- Addition of "categories" paragraph.
- Change "features should not be probed via other means" to "HWCAP is
preferred".
- Speling fix.
-
Documentation/powerpc/el
Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of May 25, 2022 4:32 am:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:52:00AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Nicholas Piggin:
>>
>> > +2. Facilities
>> > +-
>> > +The Power ISA uses the term "facility" to describe a class of
>> > instructions,
>> > +regis
Finally got some details about the icache snoop question so just coming
back to this now, sorry for the delay... (POWER10 does support the
coherent icache flush sequence as expected, there was some updates to
the UM wording but that will be fixed).
Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of M
Take the arm64 HWCAP documentation file and adjust it for powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
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Thanks for all the comments and corrections. It should be nearing the
point where it is useful now. Yes I do think it would be useful to align
this more with OpenPOWER docs (and possibly eventua
Excerpts from Paul E Murphy's message of May 21, 2022 12:21 am:
>
>
> On 5/20/22 12:15 AM, Nicholas Piggin via Gcc wrote:
>> This takes the arm64 file and adjusts it for powerpc. Feature
>> descriptions are vaguely handwaved by me.
>> ---
>>
>> Anyb
Excerpts from Michael Ellerman's message of May 20, 2022 7:21 pm:
> Nicholas Piggin via Libc-alpha writes:
>> This takes the arm64 file and adjusts it for powerpc. Feature
>> descriptions are vaguely handwaved by me.
>> ---
>
> Thanks for attempting to document this.
It was mainly copy and paste
This takes the arm64 file and adjusts it for powerpc. Feature
descriptions are vaguely handwaved by me.
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Anybody care to expand on or correct the meaning of these entries or
bikeshed the wording of the intro? Many of them are no longer used
anywhere by upstream kernels and even where they are i
