[PATCH v3] arm64: v8.4: Support for new floating point multiplication instructions

[gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg KH)]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:22:54AM +0800, gengdongjiu wrote:
> Hi will/catalin
> 
> On 2017/12/13 18:09, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > On 13/12/17 10:13, Dongjiu Geng wrote:
> >> ARM v8.4 extensions add new neon instructions for performing a
> >> multiplication of each FP16 element of one vector with the corresponding
> >> FP16 element of a second vector, and to add or subtract this without an
> >> intermediate rounding to the corresponding FP32 element in a third vector.
> >>
> >> This patch detects this feature and let the userspace know about it via a
> >> HWCAP bit and MRS emulation.
> >>
> >> Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> >> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> > 
> > Looks good to me.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> 
>  sorry to disturb you. Reminder, hope this patch can be applied to Linux 4.15-rc7.

New features should not be going into 4.15-rc, that should be a 4.16-rc1
thing, right?

thanks,

greg k-h