Re: [RFC Linux patch] powerpc: add documentation for HWCAPs

2022-05-23 Thread Paul E Murphy via Gcc
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

Re: [RFC Linux patch] powerpc: add documentation for HWCAPs

2022-05-20 Thread Paul E Murphy via Gcc
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. --- 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