[PATCH] Report support for optional ARMv8.2 half-precision floating point extension

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Sep 9 07:07:04 PDT 2022


On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 08:34:26AM -0500, George Pee wrote:
> Adding the hwcap was part of the diagnosis process-- I added it just
> to make sure that the cpu in question supported the optional
> extension.
> It seems like it could be useful to be able to check for support in
> /proc/cpuinfo.

Ah, I wasn't aware that the feature doesn't work on arm32. I don't think
it makes sense to expose a hwcap bit to user in this case.

-- 
Catalin



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