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authorMichael Neuling2008-06-25 06:07:18 +0200
committerPaul Mackerras2008-07-01 03:28:47 +0200
commitb962ce9d26fd6677e6720949642420ceb029a102 (patch)
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parentpowerpc: Introduce VSX thread_struct and CONFIG_VSX (diff)
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powerpc: Add VSX CPU feature
Add a VSX CPU feature. Also add code to detect if VSX is available from the device tree. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 2aefe2a4129a..87d83c56b31e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -609,6 +609,10 @@ static struct feature_property {
{"altivec", 0, CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC},
{"ibm,vmx", 1, CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC},
#endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
+#ifdef CONFIG_VSX
+ /* Yes, this _really_ is ibm,vmx == 2 to enable VSX */
+ {"ibm,vmx", 2, CPU_FTR_VSX, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX},
+#endif /* CONFIG_VSX */
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
{"ibm,dfp", 1, 0, PPC_FEATURE_HAS_DFP},
{"ibm,purr", 1, CPU_FTR_PURR, 0},