On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote: > We don't document our ELF hwcaps, leaving developers to interpret them > according to hearsay, guesswork, or (in exceptional cases) inspection of > the current kernel code. > > This is less than optimal, and it would be far better if we had some > definitive description of each of the ELF hwcaps that developers could > refer to. > > This patch adds a document describing the (native) arm64 ELF hwcaps. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ With the kernel docs moving to ReST markup[1], perhaps reformat this to a .rst file and link to it from somewhere sensible in the ReST tree, perhaps the userspace API section in Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst? -Kees [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/sphinx.html -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
