[RFC PATCH v2 38/41] arm64/sve: Detect SVE via the cpufeature framework

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Thu Mar 23 07:43:55 PDT 2017


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:37:05PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:11:50PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:

[...]

> > >The SVE field in AA64PFR0 is made visible visible to userspace MRS
> > >emulation.  This should make sense for future architecture
> > >extensions.
> > 
> > Please could you also update the following documentation :
> > 
> >  Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> 
> Missed that, thanks.
> 
> I'll propose a comment in this file reminding people to keep the
> document up to date too.

Scratch that, somebody beat me to it ;)

Cheers
---Dave



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