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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:22:24 +0800
From: gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC: Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>,
<catalin.marinas@....com>, <will.deacon@....com>, <corbet@....net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: v8.4: Support for new floating point
multiplication instructions
On 2018/1/5 15:57, Greg KH wrote:
> 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@....com>
>>>> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
>>>
>>> Looks good to me.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....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?
It is also great if it can be applied to 4.16-rc1. Thanks a lot!
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> .
>
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