On 4 February 2016 at 18:56, Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> wrote: > Set the default to the latest CPU version to have the > largest set of available features. > > It is also really needed in little-endian mode because > POWER7 is not really supported in this mode and some distros > (at least debian) generate POWER8 code for their ppc64le target. > > Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813698 > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com>
This patch is a good fix, but for the longer term is it possible on PPC to define an "any" CPU which is the largest possible set of usable-together userspace features? That would make it easier for us to avoid this problem in the future for POWER9, POWER10,... thanks -- PMM
