[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: 8079203: aarch64: need to cater for different partner implementations

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/05/2015 03:52 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> We're looking into exposing such information to userspace in a more
> structured manner at the moment, but we don't have an RFC just yet. I
> take it that you would be interested when that appears?

You're not kidding.  This is something we need desperately, some time
last year.  JIT compilers really are different to all other userspace
programs in this regard: we really do need to know exact models,
pipelines, and so on, in order to generate best code.  In some cases
we even need to minor CPU versions to work around bugs.  We really
don't want to have to parse /proc/cpuinfo.

Andrew.