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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] CAS DFP support
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Jake Moilanen writes:

> When booting a Power6 in compat mode, the DFP bit must be set in the
> client architecture call, or else firmware will downgrade the compliance
> to P5 compat mode, thus removing VMX and DFP instructions.

This change is already in the powerpc.git tree; it was part of my
"Distinguish POWER6 partition modes and tell userspace" patch.

Paul.