Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2017-05-25

Re: powerpc: add PPC_FEATURE userspace bits for SCV and DARN instructions

From: Michael Ellerman <hidden>
Date: 2017-05-25 13:22:31

On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 04:29:49 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Providing "scv" support to userspace requires kernel support, so it
must be advertised as independently to the base ISA 3 instruction set.

The darn instruction relies on firmware enablement, so it has been
decided to split this out from the core ISA 3 feature as well.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a4700a26107241cc7b9ac8528b2c67

cheers
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