On 13 January 2016 03:39:17 GMT+11:00, Steven Munroe <munro...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 15:48 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> On 01/11/2016 02:55 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote: >> > "Carlos O'Donell" <car...@redhat.com> writes: >> > >> >> On 01/11/2016 10:16 AM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote: >> >>> Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zane...@linaro.org> writes: >> >>> >> >>>> On 08-01-2016 13:36, Peter Bergner wrote: >> >>>>> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 11:25 -0200, Tulio Magno Quites Machado >Filho wrote: >> >>>>>> Peter, this solves the issue you reported previously [1]. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-12/msg00522.html >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Agreed, thanks. I'll also add the POWER9 support to the GCC >side >> >>>>> of the patch now that the glibc code is upstream. >> >>>> >> >>>> I do not see these bits being added in kernel side yet and GLIBC >usual >> >>>> only sync these kind of bits *after* they are included in kernel >side. >> >>>> So I would advise to either get these pieces (kernel support and >hwcap >> >>>> advertise) in kernel before 2.23 release, otherwise revert the >patches. >> >>> >> >>> Ack. >> >>> It has just been sent to the correspondent Linux mailing list: >> >>> >https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-January/137763.html >> >> >> >> Please revert the changes from glibc until you checkin support to >linux >> >> kernel mainline. >> >> >> >> Leaving these bits in increases the risk that someone uses to >deploy a glibc >> >> that then may have the wrong value. >> > >> > Could you clarify this statement, please? >> > I fail to see how they could have the wrong value. >> >> Until it is checked into the mainline kernel it is not canonical. >> >> That's the rule. There are no other discussions to be had. >> >Well is was posted to to powerpc next: >https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/e708c24cd01ce80b1609d8bacc
And it is now in Linus' tree: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e708c24cd01ce80b1609d8baccee40ccc3608a01 cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
