On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 06:09:52PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 19/04/16 12:59, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 01:42:55AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >> On 15/04/16 16:36, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>> We have a POWER8 FATE station now and I noticed that release 11 fails
> >>> horribly on POWER8.  At Luca's suggestion I started looking into
> >>> backporting support and it turns out the patches apply cleanly.
> >>> So here it is...
> >>
> >> The first 4 can get in, the others are features.
> > 
> > Anton is right that this is somewhat of a feature backport.  Just the
> > first four patches only fix part of the problem, so I tend to think
> > that it is not worth the trouble.  I'll just drop the set unless
> > somebody insists.
> 
> Right now you get something that would fail completely at runtime
> because the naive assumption PPC == BE.
> 
> 1-4 + 6 aren't features but fixes.

2 adds POWER8 support to the CPU detection routines.  One could argue it
to be a feature addition.  I'm not sure this is worth the trouble...

Diego
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