Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Base support for POWER10

Murilo Opsfelder Araújo [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 03:28:31PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

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On Thu, 21 May 2020 11:43:34 +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:

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This series brings together several previously posted patches required for
POWER10 support and introduces a new patch enabling POWER10 architected
mode to enable booting as a POWER10 pseries guest.

It includes support for enabling facilities related to MMA and prefix
instructions.

[...]

Patches 1-3 and 5-7 applied to powerpc/next.

[1/7] powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/ee988c11acf6f9464b7b44e9a091bf6afb3b3a49
[2/7] powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/3fd5836ee801ab9ac5b314c26550e209bafa5eaa
[3/7] powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/43d0d37acbe40a9a93d9891ca670638cd22116b1

Just out of curiosity, why do we define ISA_V3_0B and ISA_V3_1 macros
and don't use them anywhere else in the code?

Because we're sloppy :/

Can't they be used in cpufeatures_setup_start() instead of 3000 and
3100 literals?

Yes please.

cheers