From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AA3C2D0D5 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:37:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69A324712 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727701AbfLMOQV (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:16:21 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:60830 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727569AbfLMOQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:16:20 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED0513A1; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 06:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.197.1] (ewhatever.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.197.1]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EBB63F52E; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 06:16:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/elf_hwcap: Add new flags for BFloat-16 extension To: Anshuman Khandual , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1576145232-8311-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> From: Suzuki Kuruppassery Poulose Message-ID: <7730f07d-8560-d354-875b-ee49bc000e64@arm.com> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:16:18 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1576145232-8311-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/12/2019 10:07, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > Expose the availability of the BFloat16 (BF16) format support in the CPUs. > BF16 is a new 16-bit floating point format different from the half > precision format defined by the IEEE-754-2008. > > BF16 extensions add support for new instructions for both FP/SIMD and SVE. > Advertise these features individually to the userspace via ELF HWCAP. > > Cc: Catalin Marinas > Cc: Will Deacon > Cc: Mark Rutland > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose > Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose