From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, Dave.Martin@arm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Export Armv8.6 Matrix feature to userspace
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:32:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f175c28-1ac0-3da0-bbfa-a811a4adfed7@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191029113606.GB12103@willie-the-truck>
Hi Will,
On 29/10/2019 11:36, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:26:41AM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
>> On 29/10/2019 11:15, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 06:10:56PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>> This patch provides support for reporting the presence of Armv8.6
>>>> Matrix and its optional features to userspace.
>>>
>>> Are you sure this is 8.6 and not earlier?
>>
>> This was introduced by Armv8.6 see [1] but allowed to be used by Armv8.2 and
>> onwards.
>
> That doesn't mean an awful lot though, especially then the features are
> referred to in the docs as things like "ARMv8.2-F64MM".
It is arguable. The feature were announced for Armv8.6 but made available for
previous release.
Anyway, I can remove the "Armv8.6" bits if that's the concern.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-25 17:10 [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Export Armv8.6 Matrix feature to userspace Julien Grall
2019-10-29 11:15 ` Will Deacon
2019-10-29 11:26 ` Julien Grall
2019-10-29 11:36 ` Will Deacon
2019-10-29 15:32 ` Julien Grall [this message]
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