On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Mark Rutland <[email protected]> wrote: > We don't document our ELF hwcaps, leaving developers to interpret them > according to hearsay, guesswork, or (in exceptional cases) inspection of > the current kernel code. > > This is less than optimal, and it would be far better if we had some > definitive description of each of the ELF hwcaps that developers could > refer to. > > This patch adds a document describing the (native) arm64 ELF hwcaps. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> > Cc: Dave Martin <[email protected]> > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > --- > Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt | 133 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
With the kernel docs moving to ReST markup[1], perhaps reformat this to a .rst file and link to it from somewhere sensible in the ReST tree, perhaps the userspace API section in Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst? -Kees [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/sphinx.html -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
