On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 10:06 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Which we do. mfpvr is available as a fallback (essentially because if we > > don't do it somebody's going to parse /proc/cpuinfo which is arguably > > worse :-) > > Fine. But I believe that mfpvr emulation came first, which is the point > I object to (see the mess that the fact that CPUID is available to > applications made to x86 when SSE registers were added).
Heh, possibly, I don't remember... I added the cputable, I think we added mfpvr because we didn't have anything, then I added cputable which got us the HW caps, but some old stuff still relied on mfpvr so we couldn't completely remove it. > Bottom line, the mappin between PVR and capabilities offered to > applications should happen in one place, and this place is the kernel. Yes, we all agree here. > > > > We should definitely advertise the availability of isel. > > Agreed. If somebody has 5mn, patch welcome :-) Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
