[PATCH 2/8] arm64: Add compat hwcap FPHP and ASIMDHP

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Nov 15 07:32:09 PST 2022


On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 09:48:59AM +0530, Amit Kachhap wrote:
> On 11/9/22 23:30, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:28:07AM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> > > These hwcaps are earlier added for 32-bit native arm kernel and hence the
> > > corresponding changes added in 32-bit compat arm64 kernel for similar
> > > userspace interface. Floating point half-precision (FPHP) and Advanced
> > > SIMD half-precision (ASIMDHP) represent the Armv8 FP16 feature extension
> > > and is already advertised in arm64 kernel.
> > 
> > Can you provide a pointer to the commit adding these for arch/arm/, please?
> > I've not been able to spot them in linux-next so I'm a bit confused.
> 
> Those arch/arm/ patches are not merged yet. I only posted in the mailing
> list.
> Here is the link to it. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2022-October/784016.html

We'd need to get the arm32 changes reviewed and merged first before we
can take the arm64 compat counterpart.

-- 
Catalin



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