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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Export Armv8.6 Matrix feature to
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From:   Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
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Hi Will,

On 29/10/2019 11:36, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:26:41AM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
>> On 29/10/2019 11:15, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 06:10:56PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>> This patch provides support for reporting the presence of Armv8.6
>>>> Matrix and its optional features to userspace.
>>>
>>> Are you sure this is 8.6 and not earlier?
>>
>> This was introduced by Armv8.6 see [1] but allowed to be used by Armv8.2 and
>> onwards.
> 
> That doesn't mean an awful lot though, especially then the features are
> referred to in the docs as things like "ARMv8.2-F64MM".

It is arguable. The feature were announced for Armv8.6 but made available for 
previous release.

Anyway, I can remove the "Armv8.6" bits if that's the concern.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall