[ARM] 4584/2: ARMv7: Add Advanced SIMD (NEON) extension support
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:16:17 +0000 (19:16 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:44:02 +0000 (14:44 +0000)
commitb5872db4a2ebe7dbc7a5e4013ae8ee37f3de3b97
treeeab14c59c2b068868a5f53a56eb149fc1f902b13
parent25ebee020bd34d1f4c5678538204f0b10bf9f6d5
[ARM] 4584/2: ARMv7: Add Advanced SIMD (NEON) extension support

This patch enables the use of the Advanced SIMD (NEON) extension on
ARMv7. The NEON technology is a 64/128-bit hybrid SIMD architecture
for accelerating the performance of multimedia and signal processing
applications. The extension shares the registers with the VFP unit and
enabling/disabling and saving/restoring follow the same rules. In
addition, there are instructions that do not have the appropriate CP
number encoded, the checks being made in the call_fpe function.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S