Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem for kdump

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:25 +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote: This one has been pending for a long time. Somehow never made it upstream. Resending the patch which fixes /dev/oldmem interface for kdump. Tested with 2.6.26-rc8. Signed-off-by : Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even though I

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem for kdump

2008-07-03 Thread Sachin P. Sant
Michael Ellerman wrote: Even though I wrote this, it was so long ago I can't really vouch for it. If you've tested it and it works Sachin then we should merge it. Is this fix in distros or does it not apply? Yes, i have tested this on couple of power boxes and the patch works fine. [ i can

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem for kdump

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:02 +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote: Michael Ellerman wrote: Even though I wrote this, it was so long ago I can't really vouch for it. If you've tested it and it works Sachin then we should merge it. Is this fix in distros or does it not apply? Yes, i have tested

linux-next: generic-ipi tree build failure

2008-07-03 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Ingo, Jens, Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c: In function 'pgtable_free_now': arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c:66: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function' arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c: In function 'slice_get_unmapped_area':

Re: linux-next: generic-ipi tree build failure

2008-07-03 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Jul 03 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Ingo, Jens, Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c: In function 'pgtable_free_now': arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c:66: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'

Re: linux-next: generic-ipi tree build failure

2008-07-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo, Jens, Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c: In function 'pgtable_free_now': arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c:66: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'

where can i find a kdb patch for my MPC8313 platform

2008-07-03 Thread 旭 罗
Hello all: I hope add the KDB function for my mpc8313 platform. I find some informations from the ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download . But i only find the comman patch and a patch for X86 system. Hi Scoott i think you have ever used the KDB to debug the MPC8313. Could you tell me

More commits added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
The following patches have been added to the master and powerpc-next branches of powerpc.git. Paul. Kumar Gala (2): powerpc: Fix building of feature-fixup tests on ppc32 powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtime Michael Neuling (3): powerpc: Fix compile warning in init_thread

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Xilinx: add 440 platform support

2008-07-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:48:26 -0700 John Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Support for the Xilinx Virtex5 FXT 440 is being added. Signed-off-by: John Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Kconfig | 25 ++ arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Makefile |1 +

RE: [PATCH] powerpc: Xilinx: add 440 platform support

2008-07-03 Thread John Linn
XILINX_VIRTEX_5_FXT is the FPGA architecture, which has a 440 and can be on a number of different boards. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: Josh Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:15 AM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Xilinx: add 440 platform support

2008-07-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:20:45 -0600 John Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XILINX_VIRTEX_5_FXT is the FPGA architecture, which has a 440 and can be on a number of different boards. Could you add that as some help text under the config option for 5_FXT? That way you don't have to answer that question

RE: [PATCH] powerpc: Xilinx: add 440 platform support

2008-07-03 Thread John Linn
Not a problem, I'll add it and respin the patch. -Original Message- From: Josh Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:21 AM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Xilinx: add 440 platform support On Thu,

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property andof_get_aliased_index

2008-07-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:41:12 +0200 Stefan Roese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 June 2008, Sean MacLennan wrote: Well, there's a lot of disagreement on this subject. Not only do we not agree on a method of enumerating devices, a lot of people have a problem with the concept of

[PATCH] [V3] powerpc: Xilinx: add 440 platform support

2008-07-03 Thread John Linn
Support for the Xilinx Virtex5 FXT 440 is being added. Signed-off-by: John Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- V1 V2 bad mailing list address, never got to mailing list V3 added more help to Kconfig, requested from Josh arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Kconfig | 26 +++

[PATCH 3/3] ehea: fix race condition

2008-07-03 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
When ehea_stop is called the function cancel_work_sync(port-reset_task) is used to ensure that the reset task is not running anymore. We need an additional flag to ensure that it can not be scheduled after this call again for a certain time. Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem

2008-07-03 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
A mutex has to be replaced by spinlocks as it can be called from a context which does not allow sleeping. The kzalloc flag GFP_KERNEL has to be replaced by GFP_ATOMIC for the same reason. Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -Nurp -X dontdiff

[PATCH 2/3] ehea: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE

2008-07-03 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Required to allow distros to easily detect when ehea module needs to be loaded Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.26-rc8/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c ---

Re: where can i find a kdb patch for my MPC8313 platform

2008-07-03 Thread Scott Wood
旭 罗 wrote: Hello all: I hope add the KDB function for my mpc8313 platform. I find some informations from the ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download . But i only find the comman patch and a patch for X86 system. Hi Scoott i think you have ever used the KDB to debug the MPC8313. Could you

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the powerpc tree

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 08:22:18AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: Testing was good when the patch was initially posted in January. In the last six months the initial patch set has been sliced and diced into a bunch of different pieces but the contents of this patch are essentially unchanged. I

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Xilinx: add 440 platform support

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:14:48AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:48:26 -0700 John Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +config XILINX_VIRTEX440_GENERIC_BOARD + bool Generic Xilinx Virtex 440 board + depends on 44x + default n + select XILINX_VIRTEX_5_FXT If this is

Re: [PATCH]: [MPC5200] (v2) Add ATA DMA support

2008-07-03 Thread Tim Yamin
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that only ATA uses this; but it is nice to have fixes to things that are obviously wrong in existing code to be split into their own patches. That way, even if the ATA patch gets backed out, the bug fix will remain.

Re: patches for 2.6.27...

2008-07-03 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:56:16AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: Please point out any patches that have been posted but havent made it into a git tree related to Freescale chips. How about RTC work for MPC8610HPCD/MPC8572DS: [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: fsl_uli1575: fix RTC quirk to work on MPC8572DS and

Re: More commits added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-07-03 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 07:47:33PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: The following patches have been added to the master and powerpc-next branches of powerpc.git. These seems to be lost: [OF] of_gpio: should use new linux/gpio.h header http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=18750 [POWERPC]

Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ALSA SoC: Add mpc5200-psc I2S driver

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:19:18AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/1/08, Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + /* Due to errata in the i2s mode; need to line up enabling +* the transmitter with a transition on the frame sync +* line */ +

Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ALSA SoC: Add OpenFirmware helper for matching bus and codec drivers

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:27:17AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/1/08, Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static struct of_snd_soc_device * +of_snd_soc_get_device(struct device_node *codec_node) +{ + struct of_snd_soc_device *of_soc; + +

[PATCH] [V2] powerpc: Xilinx: PS2: Added new XPS PS2 driver

2008-07-03 Thread John Linn
Added a new driver for Xilinx XPS PS2 IP. This driver is a flat driver to better match the Linux driver pattern. Signed-off-by: Sadanand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: John Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- V2 Updated the driver based on feedback from Dmitry, Peter, and Grant. We

Re: [PATCH] [V2] powerpc: Xilinx: PS2: Added new XPS PS2 driver

2008-07-03 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi John, On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:42:31AM -0700, John Linn wrote: + + /* Initialize the PS/2 interface */ + mutex_lock(drvdata-cfg_mutex); + if (xps2_initialize(drvdata)) { + mutex_unlock(drvdata-cfg_mutex); + dev_err(dev, Could not initialize

Re: [PATCH] [V2] powerpc: Xilinx: PS2: Added new XPS PS2 driver

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:27:00PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi John, On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:42:31AM -0700, John Linn wrote: + + /* Initialize the PS/2 interface */ + mutex_lock(drvdata-cfg_mutex); + if (xps2_initialize(drvdata)) { +

[PATCH] powerpc: add FHCI USB, FSL MCU, FSL UPM and GPIO LEDs bindings

2008-07-03 Thread Anton Vorontsov
This patch adds few bindings for the new drivers to be submitted through the appropriate maintainers. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Segher, thanks for the comments on the previous version. Do you see any issues with this one or anything I could improve further? And if

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add FHCI USB, FSL MCU, FSL UPM and GPIO LEDs bindings

2008-07-03 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 3, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: This patch adds few bindings for the new drivers to be submitted through the appropriate maintainers. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Segher, thanks for the comments on the previous version. Do you see any issues

New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Kumar Gala
Guys, I'm sure you'll hate for doing this, but I've asked Kim to create a new Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.txt as part of his SEC patch. I'm going to move all the Freescale SoC related bindings into this new file. One of the aspects of the new file is we will NOT

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add FHCI USB, FSL MCU, FSL UPM and GPIO LEDs bindings

2008-07-03 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: On Jul 3, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: This patch adds few bindings for the new drivers to be submitted through the appropriate maintainers. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Segher, thanks for

Re: New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Scott Wood
Kumar Gala wrote: I'm sure you'll hate for doing this, but I've asked Kim to create a new Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.txt as part of his SEC patch. I'm going to move all the Freescale SoC related bindings into this new file. One of the aspects of the new file is we will

Re: New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Scott Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: I'm sure you'll hate for doing this, but I've asked Kim to create a new Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.txt as part of his SEC patch. I'm going to move all the Freescale SoC related bindings

Re: New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Scott Wood wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: I'm sure you'll hate for doing this, but I've asked Kim to create a new Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.txt as part of his SEC patch. I'm going to move all the Freescale SoC related bindings into this new

Re: New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Grant Likely wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Scott Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: I'm sure you'll hate for doing this, but I've asked Kim to create a new Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.txt as part of his SEC patch.

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add FHCI USB, FSL MCU, FSL UPM and GPIO LEDs bindings

2008-07-03 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: On Jul 3, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: This patch adds few bindings for the new drivers to be submitted through the appropriate maintainers. Signed-off-by: Anton

RE: [PATCH] [V2] powerpc: Xilinx: PS2: Added new XPS PS2 driver

2008-07-03 Thread John Linn
In reviewing the data sheet for the device, I don't see any shared information between the 2 channels of the device. The mutex looks like it's not needed to me also. I'll review with some others here to make sure I'm not overlooking something. -- John -Original Message- From:

Re: New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:20:18PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: Guys, I'm sure you'll hate for doing this, but I've asked Kim to create a new Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.txt as part of his SEC patch. Just curious... why we're maintaining documentation in the .txt file? We

Support for low power mode for powerpc processors

2008-07-03 Thread prodyut hazarika
Hi all, I would like to know whether Linux on PowerPC puts the processor on low power mode during idle state. Most PowerPC processors support a low power mode. I am looking to add support for low-power mode in Linux for AMCC 4xx processors. My questions are the following: 1) Is tickless kernel

[PATCH v3] powerpc: update crypto node definition and device tree instances

2008-07-03 Thread Kim Phillips
delete obsolete device-type property, delete model property (use compatible property instead), prepend fsl, to Freescale specific properties. Add nodes to device trees that are missing them, and fix broken property values in other trees. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- changes

Re: Support for low power mode for powerpc processors

2008-07-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:54:33 -0700 prodyut hazarika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I would like to know whether Linux on PowerPC puts the processor on low power mode during idle state. Most PowerPC processors support a low power mode. I am looking to add support for low-power mode in Linux

RE: [PATCH] [V2] powerpc: Xilinx: PS2: Added new XPS PS2 driver

2008-07-03 Thread John Linn
Hi Grant, Good comments. With regard to the port-number, I don't see the value of using it unless I'm just missing something. The address of the device seems just as useful. We'll spin the patch again taking these into account and Dmitry's comment also. Thanks, John -Original

Resend: [patch 4/5] powerpc: Add Strong Access Ordering

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:33 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: Dave Kleikamp writes: This patch defines: - PROT_SAO, which is passed into mmap() and mprotect() in the prot field - VM_SAO in vma-vm_flags, and - _PAGE_SAO, the combination of WIMG bits in the pte that enables strong access

Re: Support for low power mode for powerpc processors

2008-07-03 Thread prodyut hazarika
But a lot of SoC like 440GT/EX support two modes of power save - - Cut off power to other cores like PCIExpress/USB/MAC/UART etc - Lower the CPU frequency Is it possible to scale down CPU freq or cut off power to unused cores while the CPU is idle? The ideal way would be that the SoC registers a

Re: gianfar in SGMII mode

2008-07-03 Thread Andy Fleming
On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:23, Nate Case wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:53 -0500, Nate Case wrote: I'm looking at gfar_configure_serdes() and I'm at a loss as to why this is always called when the MAC is in SGMII mode. It looks like it assumes the use of TBI for some reason. On my board it's

[PATCH] Add PPC_FEATURE_PMU_COMPAT

2008-07-03 Thread Nathan Lynch
Beginning with Power6, there is a set of 32 PMU events which is compatible across POWER processor lines. PPC_FEATURE_PMU_COMPAT indicates support for this subset. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c |4 ++-- include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h |1

[PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

2008-07-03 Thread Nathan Lynch
Some IBM POWER-based platforms have the ability to run in a mode which mostly appears to the OS as a different processor from the actual hardware. For example, a Power6 system may appear to be a Power5+, which makes the AT_PLATFORM value power5+. However, some applications (virtual machines,

[PATCH 2/2] enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector for powerpc

2008-07-03 Thread Nathan Lynch
Stash the first platform string matched by identify_cpu() in powerpc_base_platform, and supply that to the ELF loader for the value of AT_BASE_PLATFORM. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Note: I wasn't sure how to pick the index value for AT_BASE_PLATFORM; I simply searched

Re: Support for low power mode for powerpc processors

2008-07-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:52 -0700, prodyut hazarika wrote: But a lot of SoC like 440GT/EX support two modes of power save - - Cut off power to other cores like PCIExpress/USB/MAC/UART etc - Lower the CPU frequency Is it possible to scale down CPU freq or cut off power to unused cores while

Re: [patch 0/6] Strong Access Ordering page attributes for POWER7

2008-07-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, The first patch in this series hits architecture independent code, but the rest is contained in the powerpc subtree. Could you pick up the first patch into -mm? I can send the rest of them through the powerpc git tree.

Re: [PATCH]: [MPC5200] (v2) Add ATA DMA support

2008-07-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:35 +0100, Tim Yamin wrote: +static void +mpc52xx_bmdma_start(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) +{ + struct ata_port *ap = qc-ap; + struct mpc52xx_ata_priv *priv = ap-host-private_data; + + /* LocalBus lock */ + while (test_and_set_bit(0,

Re: New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Anton Vorontsov writes: Just curious... why we're maintaining documentation in the .txt file? We could just create Documentation/powerpc/fsl-device-tree-bindings.dts file, that will be: 1. True device tree source file; 2. With a lots of comments for documentation purposes; 3. Could be

Re: More commits added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Neuling
Paul. Kumar Gala (2): powerpc: Fix building of feature-fixup tests on ppc32 powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtime Michael Neuling (3): powerpc: Fix compile warning in init_thread powerpc: Clean up copy_to/from_user for vsx and fpr powerpc: Remove old

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11027] New: random forward time jumps

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:49:59 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11027 Hopefully someone in ppc land has set a watch on [EMAIL PROTECTED] If not, please go to

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11027] New: random forward time jumps

2008-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:46:57 +1000 Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:49:59 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11027 Hopefully someone in ppc land has

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11027] New: random forward time jumps

2008-07-03 Thread Tony Breeds
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:59:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Nope, the only account matching .*ppc.* and .*power.* is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I have elevated bugzilla perms so I can can query the users list) (everyone should have this - it's handy). There is a category Platform

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11027] New: random forward time jumps

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:50 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:59:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Nope, the only account matching .*ppc.* and .*power.* is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I have elevated bugzilla perms so I can can query the users list) (everyone should have this -

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11027] New: random forward time jumps

2008-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:50:22 +1000 Tony Breeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:59:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Nope, the only account matching .*ppc.* and .*power.* is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I have elevated bugzilla perms so I can can query the users list) (everyone

Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

2008-07-03 Thread Roland McGrath
Why not just use ELF_HWCAP for this? It looks like powerpc only has 3 bits left there (keeping it to 32), but 3 is not 0. If not that, why not use dsocaps? That is, some magic in the vDSO, which glibc already supports on all machines where it uses the vDSO. (For how it works, see the use in

Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

2008-07-03 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Nathan Lynch writes: Some IBM POWER-based platforms have the ability to run in a mode which mostly appears to the OS as a different processor from the actual hardware. For example, a Power6 system may appear to be a Power5+, which makes the AT_PLATFORM value power5+. However, some

Re: [PATCH v2] Change the default link address for pSeries zImage kernels.

2008-07-03 Thread Tony Breeds
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:04:32PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: Setting real-base to what? 32Mb, or any other value big enough to allow the tftp to fit in ${real-base} - ${load-base}. I admitt it's far from ideal. What currently happens with a large boot file is: Firmware loads the zImage at

Re: [PATCH]: [MPC5200] (v2) Add ATA DMA support

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 09:47:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:35 +0100, Tim Yamin wrote: +static void +mpc52xx_bmdma_start(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) +{ + struct ata_port *ap = qc-ap; + struct mpc52xx_ata_priv *priv = ap-host-private_data;

Re: [PATCH]: [MPC5200] (v2) Add ATA DMA support

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:35:27PM +0100, Tim Yamin wrote: There's also what I believe to be a hardware bug if you have high levels of BestComm ATA DMA activity along with heavy LocalPlus Bus activity; the address bus seems to sometimes get corrupted with ATA commands while the LocalPlus Bus

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11027] New: random forward time jumps

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:54:40AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:50 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:59:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Nope, the only account matching .*ppc.* and .*power.* is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I have elevated bugzilla

RE: [PATCH v2 4/5] spi: Add OF binding support for SPI busses

2008-07-03 Thread Chen Gong
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Likely Sent: 2008?7?3? 9:03 To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] spi: Add OF binding support

RE: [PATCH v2 3/5] of-bindings: Add binding documentation for SPI bussesand devices

2008-07-03 Thread Chen Gong
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Likely Sent: 2008?7?3? 9:03 To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] of-bindings: Add binding

Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] of-bindings: Add binding documentation for SPI bussesand devices

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:59:07AM +0800, Chen Gong wrote: +- reg - (required) chip select address of device. +- compatible - (required) name of SPI device following generic names + recommended practice +- max-speed - (required)

Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] spi: Add OF binding support for SPI busses

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:54:57AM +0800, Chen Gong wrote: Grant Likely wrote: + /* Mode (clock phase/polarity/etc.) */ + if (of_find_property(nc, spi,cpha, NULL)) + spi-mode |= SPI_CPHA; + if (of_find_property(nc, spi,cpol, NULL)) +

Re: New fsl device bindings file

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:38:17PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Grant Likely wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Scott Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/cpm.txt Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/cpm/uart.txt

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the powerpc tree

2008-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 08:22:18AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: Testing was good when the patch was initially posted in January. In the last six months the initial patch set has been sliced and diced into a bunch of different