On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:18:14PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 14:18 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > > > > From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ana...@in.ibm.com> > > > > The Processor Identification Register (PIR) on some powerpc platforms > > provides information to decode the processor identification tag. > > Decoding this information is platform specific. > > > > We currently need this information for POWERx processors and hence > > follows a similar model as adopted for the other POWERx specific > > features. > > At this rate we're going to end up with no bits left for CPU features > way too quickly... Especially for something we only care about once at > boot time. > > Wouldn't CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2 be a good enough test ?
/me checks Cell manuals... yes, that test would be good enough. I will cook up a patch to use this. > Can you tell us a bit more about the real use for that feature ? I still > don't see what's the point of getting the underlying HW ID. This is a requirement from the hardware system test folks for use with their core, node and thread tests. Ananth _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
