On 19/04/16 18:40, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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...

Then 3, 4 and 6 should be the bare minimum.

lu

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