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powerpc: Provide a suitable AT_PLATFORM value
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:11:39 +0000 (10:11 +1100)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:11:39 +0000 (10:11 +1100)
commit80f15dc703b3677d0b025bafd215f1f3664c8978
treefa60781edcedefe4eb6baa6d213a62bbc6d7803a
parent25cd6aa0aa059b48cdcef2a00981b14fafd5161a
powerpc: Provide a suitable AT_PLATFORM value

The glibc folks want to use AT_PLATFORM to select between possible
alternative versions of shared libraries.  This commit makes the kernel
supply an AT_PLATFORM string that indicates what class of processor
we are running on.  Processors with the same set of user-level
instructions and roughly the same instruction scheduling characteristics
are given the same AT_PLATFORM value; for example, 821, 823 and 860
are all reported as "ppc823", and 7447, 7447A, 7448, 7450, 7451, 7455
are all called "ppc7450".

The intention is that the AT_PLATFORM values match the values that
gcc accepts for the -mcpu= option.  For values which are numeric
(e.g. -mcpu=750), "ppc" has been prepended.

This also adds a PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE bit to the AT_HWCAP value and sets
it for the 440 family and the Freescale 85xx family.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
include/asm-powerpc/elf.h