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ARM: 8318/1: treat CPU feature register fields as signed quantities
authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:03:25 +0000 (19:03 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:46:15 +0000 (15:46 +0000)
commit5bbf10702fb1f80a364fd001de237ccb97497b4f
tree7f8a3bda959aedbd356591fbaa4df6946a26cfd5
parent14f9f45b127511d37a9366dd15ee29a1803fb4a0
ARM: 8318/1: treat CPU feature register fields as signed quantities

The various CPU feature registers consist of 4-bit blocks that
represent signed quantities, whose positive values represent
incremental features, and whose negative values are reserved.

To improve forward compatibility, update the feature detection
code to take possible future higher values into account, but
ignore negative values.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c