and POWER8. This instruction set unifies the 32 64-bit scalar floating
point registers with the 32 128-bit vector registers into a single bank
of 64 128-bit registers. Kernel support mostly amounts to saving and
restoring the wider version of the floating point registers and making
sure that both scalar FP and vector registers are enabled once a VSX
instruction is executed. get_mcontext() and friends currently cannot
see the high bits, which will require a little more work.
As the system compiler (GCC 4.2) does not support VSX, making use of this
from userland requires either newer GCC or clang.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
This appears to fix a strange condition with X on 32-bit PowerBooks I observed,
caused by one of these bits getting set in the mcontext, but not set in the
thread, which may be a symptom of another problem, more difficult to diagnose.
Since these bits aren't exported anyway, this change makes it more explicit that
the bits aren't MSR-related in SRR1.
MFC after: 3 weeks
implementation specific vs. the common architecture definition.
Bring PPC4XX defines (PSL, SPR, TLB). Note the new definitions under
BOOKE_PPC4XX are not used in the code yet.
This change set is not supposed to affect existing E500 support, it's just
another reorg step before bringing support for E500mc, E5500 and PPC465.
Obtained from: AppliedMicro, Freescale, Semihalf
Kernel sources for 64-bit PowerPC, along with build-system changes to keep
32-bit kernels compiling (build system changes for 64-bit kernels are
coming later). Existing 32-bit PowerPC kernel configurations must be
updated after this change to specify their architecture.
(exec_setregs, etc.) in order to simplify the addition of 64-bit support,
and possible future extension of the Book-E code to handle hard floating
point and Altivec.
MFC after: 1 month
