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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2016-09-25 22:35:41 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-10-04 16:15:00 +1100
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powerpc: Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds
We supported POWER7 CPUs for bootstrapping little endian, but the target was always POWER8. Now that POWER7 specific issues are impacting performance, change the default target to POWER8. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype1
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index c0dbdb004f49..ca2da30ad2ab 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ endchoice
choice
prompt "CPU selection"
depends on PPC64
+ default POWER8_CPU if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
default GENERIC_CPU
help
This will create a kernel which is optimised for a particular CPU.