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From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/powerpc: advertise ISA2.07, HTM, DSCR, EBB and ISEL
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On 08.05.2013 [06:49:38 +1000], Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 13:33 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > > Similarily, Nish, you may need to check that we remove those bits if
> > > pHyp has the partition in a mode that doesn't support them (P7
> > > compatibility for example) for migration purposes.
> > 
> > Yep, I'll need to talk with Mikey about this part. Will be a follow-on
> > patch if needed. Minimally, the bit defines will stay the same, which is
> > the important part to get going right now.
> 
> Actually in such a mode we'd get a back-version architected PVR so we
> should be fine now that I think twice, but of course that need to be
> tested.

True, I'll make sure it does get tested.

-Nish