Improved arm64 chip detection 72/8372/2
authorBrian Brooks <brian.brooks@arm.com>
Wed, 6 Sep 2017 18:19:48 +0000 (13:19 -0500)
committerDamjan Marion <dmarion.lists@gmail.com>
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:13:42 +0000 (10:13 +0000)
commita7191840beeb2c3a0f2598707ed1051a9f23c45f
tree3fa0b6e08565214652b8fde2be5aa8abc2980dd3
parentb2d2fc7f581101261f59708eaf7a8ad5272a56cb
Improved arm64 chip detection

Use ARMv8 Main ID Register (exposed thru /proc/cpuinfo) to identify
the CPU implementor and part number. For further details, see the
ARMv8 ARM D7.2.66.

Change-Id: I2b0d0b165cda4ab9fc57c645af90e9e354b73f44
Signed-off-by: Brian Brooks <brian.brooks@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljedahl@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Song Zhu <song.zhu@arm.com>
dpdk/Makefile