The first patch adds the PowerPC name and the PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES type in the kernel binary ELF note. This type is a bitmap that can be used to advertise kernel capabilities to userland. The second patch adds a new documentation file to detail the ELF Note PowerPC namespace and the PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES type. V2: * Create the header arch/powerpc/include/asm/elfnote.h with the new type PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES * Add documentation file in powerpc dir Claudio Carvalho (1): powerpc: Add PowerPC Capabilities ELF note Maxiwell S. Garcia (1): docs: powerpc: Add ELF note documentation Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/elfnote.h | 24 +++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/note.S | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/elfnote.h create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/note.S -- 2.20.1
