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Re: Adding cache shape info to powerpc
- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Steven Munroe <munroesj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Paul Mackerras <pmac at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:18:21 +1000
- Subject: Re: Adding cache shape info to powerpc
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On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> > If the old format was in mainline at any point (or in a vendor kernel,
> > but let's hope vendors don't do this anymore), you need to pick new numbers.
>
> If we need new ones anyway, is there any reason for having to pack this
> information? Why can't we have separate define's for the individual
> properties describing the shape?
That would be something like 12 new entries, a bit big no ?
Cheers,
Ben.