IBM Power processors encode PVR as CPU family in higher 16 bits and a CPU
version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant change in behavior
between versions, there is no point to add every single CPU version in
cpu_map.xml and check for the same in cpu_powerpc.c
Signed-off-by: Pradipta Kr. Banerjee <bpradip(a)in.ibm.com>
---
src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c b/src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c
index 67cb9ff..18dbc99 100644
--- a/src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c
+++ b/src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c
@@ -93,7 +93,12 @@ ppcModelFindPVR(const struct ppc_map *map,
model = map->models;
while (model != NULL) {
- if (model->data.pvr == pvr)
+ /*IBM PowerPC processors encode PVR as CPU family in higher 16 bits and
+ *a CPU version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant change
+ *in behavior between versions, there is no point to add every single
+ *CPU version in cpu_map.xml
+ */
+ if ((model->data.pvr & 0xFFFF0000) == (pvr & 0xFFFF0000))
return model;
model = model->next;
--
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