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From:   George Pee <georgepee@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2022 09:57:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Report support for optional ARMv8.2 half-precision
 floating point extension
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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        Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
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The details are here.  I originally thought it was a compiler bug
because it first showed up after a toolchain update.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106763

Since FP16 is an optional extension, wouldn't it be beneficial to a
user who compiled some userspace float16 code using gcc
-mcpu=cortex-a55 which ran on a cortex-a55 with FP16 extensions but
SIGILL'd on a cortex-a55 w/o FP16?

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 9:07 AM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 08:34:26AM -0500, George Pee wrote:
> > Adding the hwcap was part of the diagnosis process-- I added it just
> > to make sure that the cpu in question supported the optional
> > extension.
> > It seems like it could be useful to be able to check for support in
> > /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> Ah, I wasn't aware that the feature doesn't work on arm32. I don't think
> it makes sense to expose a hwcap bit to user in this case.
>
> --
> Catalin