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authorAndrew Turner <andrew@FreeBSD.org>2026-05-14 15:04:32 +0000
committerAndrew Turner <andrew@FreeBSD.org>2026-05-27 15:22:25 +0000
commit48da01ad0b165b4dd38a4c22449216c1babc068b (patch)
tree31667ea70d02c16c2e637a2bb5c4fa4e8d748ce8
parent4f876cec30afca1a32d0187fc81d6c3ffd1abc30 (diff)
arm64: Add a comment about HWCAP values
They must be identical to Linux. Document this requirement to allow userspace to depend on this. Sponsored by: Arm Ltd
-rw-r--r--sys/arm64/include/elf.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arm64/include/elf.h b/sys/arm64/include/elf.h
index a5a90f8c7712..7940bb259256 100644
--- a/sys/arm64/include/elf.h
+++ b/sys/arm64/include/elf.h
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ __ElfType(Auxinfo);
/* First __FreeBSD_version that supports Top Byte Ignore (TBI) */
#define TBI_VERSION 1500058
+/*
+ * The HWCAP values must be identical to Linux. Many userspace programs
+ * will define missing HWCAP values to the Linux version. To keep these
+ * working when we add the HWCAP it must be the same.
+ */
+
/* HWCAP */
#define HWCAP_FP (1 << 0)
#define HWCAP_ASIMD (1 << 1)