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authorNathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>2008-07-16 09:58:51 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-07-25 15:44:39 +1000
commit9115d13453dee22473a1e8cacc90a8d64a9c4bc9 (patch)
treedc6c7b1aad8861ae5f88aaf496fd634338686330 /include/asm-powerpc
parent483fad1c3fa1060d7e6710e84a065ad514571739 (diff)
powerpc: Enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector
Stash the first platform string matched by identify_cpu() in powerpc_base_platform, and supply that to the ELF loader for the value of AT_BASE_PLATFORM. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-powerpc')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h2
-rw-r--r--include/asm-powerpc/elf.h8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h b/include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
index 2a3e9075a5a..ef8a248dfd5 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ extern struct cpu_spec *identify_cpu(unsigned long offset, unsigned int pvr);
extern void do_feature_fixups(unsigned long value, void *fixup_start,
void *fixup_end);
+extern const char *powerpc_base_platform;
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
/* CPU kernel features */
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/elf.h b/include/asm-powerpc/elf.h
index 89664675b46..80d1f399ee5 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/elf.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/elf.h
@@ -217,6 +217,14 @@ typedef elf_vrregset_t elf_fpxregset_t;
#define ELF_PLATFORM (cur_cpu_spec->platform)
+/* While ELF_PLATFORM indicates the ISA supported by the platform, it
+ * may not accurately reflect the underlying behavior of the hardware
+ * (as in the case of running in Power5+ compatibility mode on a
+ * Power6 machine). ELF_BASE_PLATFORM allows ld.so to load libraries
+ * that are tuned for the real hardware.
+ */
+#define ELF_BASE_PLATFORM (powerpc_base_platform)
+
#ifdef __powerpc64__
# define ELF_PLAT_INIT(_r, load_addr) do { \
_r->gpr[2] = load_addr; \