[PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: Add two HWCAPs for Arm v8.7 FP behaviour

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Fri Dec 10 09:31:43 PST 2021


On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:54:29 +0000,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> This series adds new HWCAPs for two Arm v8.7 features:
>   - FEAT_AFP: Alternate floating-point behavior for specific
>     floating point instructions.
>   - FEAT_RPRES: Increased precision of Reciprocal Estimate and
>     Reciprocal Square Root Estimate from an 8-bit mantissa to a
>     12-bit mantissa.
> 
> These features can be enabled by userspace by setting some new bits
> in FPCR. These new bits are FPCR.{NEP, AH, FIZ}. Since these must be
> explicitly enabled by userspace, this should not affect existing
> applications.

For the series:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>

	M.

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