[Buildroot] [PATCH 5/9] arch/powerpc: Add Power9 CPU type

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 29/07/2022 02:09, Joel Stanley wrote:
> The Power9 CPU was released by IBM in 2016. It is a 64-bit CPU
> implementing ISA v3.0. It runs in big and little endian modes, and
> supports VSX and AltiVec.
> 
> Power9 is supported as of GCC 6.1 and Binutils 2.26.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>

  Applied to master, after removing the !64 condition, thanks.

  I didn't continue with the rest of the series - there are merge conflicts with 
the earlier changes I did. Can you please rebase and resend? And also take into 
account the comments on the first three patches of the series of course.

  Regards,
  Arnout

> ---
>   arch/Config.in.powerpc | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/Config.in.powerpc b/arch/Config.in.powerpc
> index 7c6ae84348e9..4c633c338d86 100644
> --- a/arch/Config.in.powerpc
> +++ b/arch/Config.in.powerpc
> @@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ config BR2_powerpc_power8
>   	depends on BR2_ARCH_IS_64
>   	select BR2_POWERPC_CPU_HAS_ALTIVEC
>   	select BR2_POWERPC_CPU_HAS_VSX
> +config BR2_powerpc_power9
> +	bool "power9"
> +	depends on BR2_ARCH_IS_64
> +	select BR2_POWERPC_CPU_HAS_ALTIVEC
> +	select BR2_POWERPC_CPU_HAS_VSX
> +	select BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_6
>   endchoice
>   
>   if BR2_POWERPC_CPU_HAS_SPE
> @@ -228,6 +234,7 @@ config BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU
>   	default "power6"	if BR2_powerpc_power6
>   	default "power7"	if BR2_powerpc_power7
>   	default "power8"	if BR2_powerpc_power8
> +	default "power9"	if BR2_powerpc_power9
>   	default "powerpc64"	if BR2_generic_powerpc64
>   	default "powerpc"	if BR2_generic_powerpc
>