[PATCH 15/27] Add mfdec emulation

2009-10-30 Thread Alexander Graf
We support setting the DEC to a certain value right now. Doing that basically triggers the CPU local timer. But there's also an mfdec command that enabled the OS to read the decrementor. This is required at least by all desktop and server PowerPC Linux kernels. It can't really hurt to allow

[PATCH 15/27] Add mfdec emulation

2009-10-30 Thread Alexander Graf
We support setting the DEC to a certain value right now. Doing that basically triggers the CPU local timer. But there's also an mfdec command that enabled the OS to read the decrementor. This is required at least by all desktop and server PowerPC Linux kernels. It can't really hurt to allow

[PATCH 15/27] Add mfdec emulation

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Graf
We support setting the DEC to a certain value right now. Doing that basically triggers the CPU local timer. But there's also an mfdec command that enabled the OS to read the decrementor. This is required at least by all desktop and server PowerPC Linux kernels. It can't really hurt to allow

[PATCH 15/27] Add mfdec emulation

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Graf
We support setting the DEC to a certain value right now. Doing that basically triggers the CPU local timer. But there's also an mfdec command that enabled the OS to read the decrementor. This is required at least by all desktop and server PowerPC Linux kernels. It can't really hurt to allow

Re: [PATCH 15/27] Add mfdec emulation

2009-10-09 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:18 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: We support setting the DEC to a certain value right now. Doing that basically triggers the CPU local timer. But there's also an mfdec command that enabled the OS to read the decrementor. This is required at least by all desktop and