Hi Ben,

On 16 January 2017 at 23:31, Ben Crocker <bcroc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> If llvm::sys::getHostCPUName() returns "generic", override
> it with "pwr8" (on PPC64LE).
>
> This is a work-around for a bug in LLVM: a table entry for "POWER8NVL"
> is missing, resulting in (big-endian) "generic" being returned on
> little-endian Power8NVL systems.  The result is that code that
> attempts to load the least significant 32 bits of a 64-bit quantity in
> memory loads the wrong half.
>
I hope you've reported that bug the the LLVM people ? Can you please
add a comment in the code and reference the respective bug report
(either commit message or inline is fine).

Please add the following tag so that we get this for stable.
Cc: "12.0 13.0 17.0" <mesa-sta...@lists.freedesktop.org>

Thanks !
Emil
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