Re: [patch 0/6] Strong Access Ordering page attributes for POWER7

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:23 -0500, Joel Schopp wrote:

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We haven't defined a user-visible feature bit (and besides, we're really
getting short on these...). This is becoming a bit of concern btw (the
running out of bits). Maybe we should start defining an AT_HWCAP2 for
powerpc and get libc updated to pick it up ?
    

Joel,
Any thoughts?

Is it a required or optional feature of the 2.06 architecture spec?  If it's required you could just use that.  It doesn't solve the problem more generically if other archs decide to implement it though.

And then we start having to expose 2.06S vs. 2.06E .. nah.

I think for now, for SAO, the idea that one can "try" and if -EINVAL,
try again without might work fine.

Cheers,
Ben.