On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:35:30AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 25.03.2011 um 04:21 schrieb David Gibson:
>
> >Currently the SLB information when emulating a PowerPC 970 is
> >storeed in a structure with the unhelpfully named fields 'tmp'
> >and 'tmp64'. While the layout in these fields does match the
> >description of the SLB in the architecture document, it is not
> >convenient either for looking up the SLB, or for emulating the
> >slbmte instruction.
> >
> >This patch, therefore, reorganizes the SLB entry structure to be
> >divided in the the "ESID related" and "VSID related" fields as
> >they are divided in instructions accessing the SLB.
> >
> >In addition to making the code smaller and more readable, this will
> >make it easier to implement for the 1TB segments used in more
> >recent PowerPC chips.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: David Gibson <d...@au1.ibm.com>
>
> According to my bisect, this patch broke ppc64 OpenBIOS.
>
> David, would you please take a look?
Uh, sure. can you describe the symptoms of the breakage, and the
exact qemu setup you've observed the problem with?
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