On 5/20/22 7:11 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
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:
+PPC_FEATURE2_TAR
+VSX facility is available.
Was manipulating the tar spr was once a privileged instruction, is this
a hint
Excerpts from Paul E Murphy's message of May 21, 2022 12:21 am:
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> 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.
>> ---
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>> Anybody care to expand on or correct the meaning of
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 09:21:43AM -0500, Paul E Murphy wrote:
> >+PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC
> >+Vector (aka Altivec, VSX) facility is available.
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> I think "(aka Altivec, VSX)" might be more accurately stated as "(aka
> Altivec)"?
"Also known as AltiVec or VMX", yes.
> >+PPC_FEATURE_HAS_DFP
On 5/20/22 12:15 AM, Nicholas Piggin via Gcc wrote:
> +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC
> +Vector (aka Altivec, VSX) facility is available.
Slight typo. s/VSX/VMX/
Peter
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.
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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 us
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
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.
> Anybody care to expand on or correct the meaning of these entries or
> bikeshed the wording of the in
This takes the arm64 file and adjusts it for powerpc. Feature
descriptions are vaguely handwaved by me.
---
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
