Ben Gamsa writes:
It appears to be the case that when the time on the system is around the
epoch (1970), that time will occasionally jump forward and then backward
by about 17592 seconds. When it jumps forward, it always jumps back a
few milliseconds later. However, it's not always easy
of the PMU in use flag from
pseries_lpar_enable_pmcs, since that is now done in its caller.
This also removes the declaration of pasemi_enable_pmcs because it
isn't defined anywhere.
Reported-by: Maynard Johnson mpj...@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
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know we won't
get a context switch while we're in power_check_constraints().
Note that power_check_constraints() can be called during context
switch but is not called from interrupts.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman mich...@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
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arch/powerpc
-by: Sachin Sant sach...@in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
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I missed this problem when the x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS
overflow handling patch was posted because the headline made it seem
entirely x86-specific, and the changes to struct perf_sample_data
Ingo Molnar writes:
Paul, you might also want to test the perfcounter bits of -tip on
PowerPC a bit more frequently - this patch was there for 5 days before i
sent it to Linus.
Yes, I'll try to do that in future.
I hope I didn't come across as blaming anyone for anything - that
wasn't my
-ends where
they initialize their power_pmu struct.)
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event.h |4 +--
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c | 38 +-
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff
Roel Kluin writes:
Check to prevent unsigned wrap of size before subtraction.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin roel.kl...@gmail.com
---
Is this maybe better or are we certain that size can't wrap?
Patch looks good, though while you're at it, you could add a space
after the while.
Acked-by: Paul
Here is a series of patches from Anton Blanchard that implement some
nice tracing and perf_event features on powerpc. One of them is
generic perf_event stuff (adding software events for alignment faults
and instruction emulation faults).
Since this touches the perf_event and tracing subsystems
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 11:56 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Here is a series of patches from Anton Blanchard that implement some
nice tracing and perf_event features on powerpc. One of them is
generic perf_event stuff (adding software events for alignment
the modules maintainer, Rusty Russell, perhaps?
In any case,
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
Adjust crcs in __kcrctab_* sections if relocs are used with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
When CONFIG_MODVERSIONS and CONFIG_RELOCATABLE are enabled on powerpc
platforms,
kdump has been failing
Nathan Fontenot writes:
The Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR) capabilities of the powerpc pseries
platform allows for the addition and removal of resources (i.e. cpus,
memory, pci devices) from a partition. The removal of a resource involves
removing the resource's node from the device
Nathan Fontenot writes:
This patch provides the kernel DLPAR infrastructure in a new filed named
dlpar.c. The functionality provided is for acquiring and releasing a resource
from firmware and the parsing of information returned from the
ibm,configure-connector rtas call. Additionally this
Nathan Fontenot writes:
Register the pseries specific handlers for the powerpc architecture handlers
for the cpu probe and release files. This also implements the cpu DLPAR
addition and removal of CPUS from the system.
...
+ /* configure-connector reports cpus as living in the base
+
Nathan Fontenot writes:
Create new probe and release sysfs files to facilitate adding and removing
cpus from the system. This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle
the arch callouts from writes to the sysfs files.
The creation and use of these files is regulated by the
Nathan Fontenot writes:
This patch adds the specific routines to probe and release (add and remove)
cpu resource for the powerpc pseries platform and registers these handlers
with the ppc_md callout structure.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot nf...@austin.ibm.com
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras pau
is regulated by the
CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the
capability will have the files created.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot nf...@austin.ibm.com
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
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notifier chain so that it can be invoked when device tree
updates are made.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot nf...@austin.ibm.com
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Li Yang writes:
That's my concern too. But after all mmap without O_SYNC on I/O
devices should be deprecated.
It should? Why?
Shouldn't the onus rather be on those proposing an incompatible change
to the kernel ABI, such as this is, to show why the change is
absolutely essential?
A
Li Yang writes:
There was no way to set mapped memory as cacheable if the memory
is not managed by Linux kernel. It's not rare in real system to
allocate some dedicated memory to a certain application which is not
managed by kernel and then mmap'ed the memory to the application.
The memory
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:30:39PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
Use the %pM kernel extension to display the MAC address.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten hswee...@visionengravers.com
---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c
index a7e21a3..a2f07a5
David Miller writes:
Paul, I just noticed that right now if perf counter is enabled, the
oprofile module load will always fail because the powerpc perf counter
support unconditionally grabs the PMC hardware using
reserve_pmc_hardware() in an arch_initcall()
There really needs to be a way
Andrew Morton writes:
It looks like we died in ext3_xattr_block_get():
memcpy(buffer, bh-b_data + le16_to_cpu(entry-e_value_offs),
size);
Perhaps entry-e_value_offs is no good. I wonder if the filesystem is
corrupted and this snuck through the
Timur Tabi writes:
Can someone explain CLOCK_TICK_RATE to me? It's defined in
arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h as such:
#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1024000 /* Underlying HZ */
Every architecture defines this, but some use the better comment
Underlying frequency of the HZ timer.
My
Arnd Bergmann writes:
On Thursday 02 April 2009, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
| arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o:(.toc1+0x4e8): undefined reference to
`pci_io_base'
due to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/io-workarounds.c. I guess this file
shouldn't be built when CONFIG_PCI=n?
Right,
to execute the module text caused an
exception on processors that support hardware execute permission.
This adds _PAGE_HWEXEC to the definitions of PAGE_KERNEL_X and
PAGE_KERNEL_ROX to fix this problem.
Reported-by: Sean MacLennan smaclen...@pikatech.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras pau
Hugh Dickins writes:
Now that shmem's divisions by zero and SHMEM_MAX_BYTES are fixed,
let powerpc 256kB pages coexist with CONFIG_SHMEM again.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins h...@veritas.com
---
Added linuxppc-dev and some other Cc's for this 3/3: sorry
if you didn't see 1/3 and 2/3, they
David Gibson writes:
The vast bulk of this patch is a literal move, the rest is adjusting
the various Makefiles to use dtc and libfdt correctly from their new
locations.
Did you test this with a separate object directory? I get:
$ make O=../test-64k V=1
[snip]
gcc
is
interested.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare kh...@linux-fr.org
Seems to work fine on my powermac7,2 machine (dual 2.0GHz G5).
Tested-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
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the same register for 'oparg' (an input) as it uses
for the result.
This fixes it by using separate registers for 'oparg' and 'ret'.
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org
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Can anyone see any reason why the FUTEX_OP_SET case can't just do a
__put_user?
diff --git a/arch
Robert Jennings writes:
Adds support for the unused page hint which can be used in shared
memory partitions to flag pages not in use, which will then be stolen
before active pages by the hypervisor when memory needs to be moved to
LPARs in need of additional memory. Failure to mark pages as
Jean Delvare writes:
The legacy i2c binding model is going away soon,
But not before 2.6.30, right?
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Mike Mason writes:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_driver.c
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_driver.c
index 380420f..9a2a6e3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_driver.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_driver.c
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ static void
Mike Mason (1):
powerpc/pseries: Set error_state to pci_channel_io_normal in
eeh_report_reset()
Paul Mackerras (1):
powerpc: Fix data-corrupting bug in __futex_atomic_op
Sachin Sant (1):
powerpc: pseries/dtl.c should include asm/firmware.h
Wolfgang Grandegger (4):
powerpc
Jean Delvare writes:
Takashi, please push this patch to Linus quickly, as this is blocking
the removal of the legacy i2c binding model, which is scheduled for
2.6.30.
I really don't think you can remove it from Linus' tree at this stage
in the 2.6.30 cycle. If it was going to be removed it
Takashi Iwai writes:
At least, the conversion patch Jean posted can be in 2.6.30, I think.
Really? What regression, security hole or serious bug are you going
to tell Linus that it fixes? :)
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz writes:
mediabay shouldn't include linux/ide.h unconditionally so
remove the superfluous include from mediabay.c (asm/mediabay.h
will pull linux/ide.h in for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC=y).
I don't like relying on second-hand imports like that. I prefer the
previous
Linus,
Please pull from the 'merge' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
to get some more bug fixes for powerpc, plus some documentation and
defconfig updates and a MAINTAINERS update.
Thanks,
Paul.
Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
Jean Delvare writes:
Not removing it now has a high risk of developers continuing to ignore
the deprecation warnings and adding new legacy drivers, which I then
must convert to the new model. This never ends.
I know my behavior may seem a bit rude, but apparently this is the only
way to
Jean Delvare writes:
I sympathize, but throwing disruptive changes into Linus' tree when
we're past -rc3 is not the way to solve the problem.
We're past -rc3 because people discuss instead of testing my patches.
Otherwise everything would be merged already.
Well, no. The first
Linus,
Please revert commits edada399 (powerpc: Use TEXT_TEXT macro in
linker script.) and 9203fc9c (powerpc: Use __REF macro instead of
old .text.init.refok.), which depends on edada399.
Commit edada399 breaks the build because it moves the __ftr_alt_*
sections of a file away from the .text
Linus,
Please pull from the 'merge' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
to get a collection of bug fixes for powerpc.
Thanks,
Paul.
MAINTAINERS |2 +
arch/powerpc/boot/4xx.c | 56
Tim Abbott writes:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index ad06d5c..841910a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static int vdso_ready;
static union {
struct vdso_datadata;
u8
Does anyone here still have a windtunnel powermac (PowerMac3,6)
machine running Linux? We need someone to test Jean Delvare's patch
to the therm_windtunnel driver. The patch is at:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/26095/
I don't have a windtunnel machine myself - I have a PowerMac3,5 but
not
Manish Ahuja writes:
Initial patch for reserving memory in early boot, and freeing it later.
If the previous boot had ended with a crash, the reserved memory would contain
a copy of the crashed kernel data.
[snip]
+static void __init reserve_crashed_mem(void)
+{
+ unsigned long base,
Badari Pulavarty writes:
Thank you for your input and suggestions. Does this look reasonable
to you ?
Thanks,
Badari
For memory remove, we need to clean up htab mappings for the
section of the memory we are removing.
This patch implements support for removing htab bolted mappings
Linus,
Please do
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git for-2.6.25
to get another powerpc update for 2.6.25. Various bug fixes have come
in, plus there are a few patches that I missed from the previous set.
Thanks,
Paul.
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
Linus,
Please do
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git for-2.6.25
I have added a few more commits since yesterday's pull request: some
commits updating the 4xx support from Josh Boyer's tree, a compile fix
for 52xx, and a string of commits from Roland
-offsets.c.
This fixes it by introducing a new MONOTONIC_RES_NSEC define in the
generic code which is equivalent to KTIME_MONOTONIC_RES but is just an
integer constant, not a ktime union.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Linus, I'm sending
Linus,
Please do
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git for-2.6.25
to get some bug-fixes for powerpc (1 for powermac and 8 for Cell),
plus 3 commits from Badari Pulavarty that implement memory hot-remove
for 64-bit powerpc. These 3 commits have been
Linus,
Please do
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
to get a collection of bug-fixes and very minor cleanups for powerpc
(plus one commit wiring up the timerfd syscalls).
Thanks,
Paul.
arch/powerpc/Kconfig |4 ---
Andrew Morton writes:
Bizarrely, the original author of the patch (Anton) has fallen off the cc.
Could whoever did that please thwap himself?
Anyway, my head is now officially spinning. Did anyone actually have a
reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch?
I was wondering if it
Linus,
Please do
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
to get a few more bug and warning fixes for powerpc. The diffstat is
bloated by the defconfig updates -- the actual code changes are only a
few dozen lines.
Thanks,
Paul.
Kumar Gala writes:
np. Are we trying to get this into 2.6.25 or .26?
I was going to put it into my powerpc-next branch and put it in
2.6.26. I don't see any need for it to go in 2.6.25.
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David Miller writes:
I'm ambivalent but I would obviously prefer 2.6.25 because
it would allow me to proceed more easily with my sparc64
NUMA work as well as get your bug fixes in more smoothly.
Sounds like we should get Stephen to put it in linux-next-stable once
we're convinced it's all OK.
Anton Vorontsov writes:
I was wondering if it would be sufficient to provide alternative
versions of fb_readl, fb_writel etc. that do byte-swapping.
This is of course viable alternative. And I was considering this, but
later I abandoned the idea: that way we'll end up doing math in the
Linus,
Since I send the last pull request I have added four more commits to
the powerpc.git merge branch, two from Olof Johansson fixing a bug and
a warning for the pasemi platform, and two spufs bugfixes from Jeremy
Kerr.
Please do:
git pull \
Stefan Roese writes:
Tested on AMCC Canyonlands eval board.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With 173 lines of code added, you could spend a paragraph in the patch
description telling us why the patch is doing what it's doing the way
it's doing it. Perhaps even tell us why it
Stefan Roese writes:
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's a very uninformative commit message. :)
How about putting a brief description of the AMCC 460 family in here?
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Stefan Roese writes:
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Put a brief description of the Canyonlands in the patch description.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Actually, the patch just adds a backend to my little framework for
dealing with 4xx PCIe, which basically is a boring piece of code
filling registers with values mostly from the spec... nothing really
fancy there.
OK, then that's what the patch description
Maynard Johnson writes:
I'm developing a kernel module that needs to parse the in-memory ELF
objects for a shared library (libc, to be specific). When running my
test on a 32-bit library, it works fine, but for a 64-bit library, the
very first copy_from_user() fails:
Elf64_Ehdr ehdr;
Josh Boyer writes:
+ status = of_get_property(device, status, NULL);
+ if (status == NULL)
+ return 1;
+
+ if (!strcmp(status, okay) || !strcmp(status, ok))
It would probably be good to defend against the possibility that the
property isn't null-terminated (for
Olof Johansson writes:
Here's a set of updates for pasemi_mac for 2.6.26. Some of them touch
the dma_lib in the platform code as well, but it's easier if it's all
merged through netdev to avoid dependencies.
Major highlights are jumbo frame support and ethtool basics, the rest
is mostly
Martin Langer writes:
Thanks for the hint. Inspired by that I did the logic the other way
round. So we have the same default cases as we had before and
additionally it will fit for the cores mentioned in the doc.
Care to resend this with a proper description and a Signed-off-by
line?
+
I have created a powerpc-next branch in the powerpc.git tree, which
has the following commits on it so far. The master branch is at the
same point. I've pulled in Dave Miller's tree (for the LMB changes)
and applied some other patches from the list.
I'm expecting that platform/subarchitecture
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:03 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1):
[POWERPC] Fix thinko in cpu_thread_mask_to_cores()
Any reason why this isn't going into .25 ?
I thought you said nothing uses it.
Paul
Kumar Gala writes:
How do you plan on managing the powerpc-next branch in the future?
For example, I assume at some point linus will pull it into what would
be 2.6.26. Would you rebase this branch? etc.
Yes, it is basically the for-2.6.26 branch. I will try very hard not
to rebase it,
Josh Boyer writes:
I'm trying to find some patches that went to the list recently in
patchwork and they seem to be missing. Here are a few:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-February/052196.html
That one was in awaiting upstream state since I put it in the
bundle, then realized
Jarod Wilson writes:
Still no luck finding one here. The person I was thinking of has a
Lombard, which has no firewire. I did get ahold of a 667MHz Titanium,
but its got an Agere FW323. Pretty sure my old man actually has a Pismo,
but its about a 3000 mile drive over to my folks house. The
Alexandr Smirnov writes:
I've fixed the code according to your comments.
None of the patches you sent have any patch description or commentary,
and that's not good enough. Yes, it all might be completely clear and
obvious in your head as to what the KSI8560 is and why you have made
the
Linus,
Please do:
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
to get a collection of bug-fixes for powerpc, for the Cell, 4xx and
52xx platforms.
Thanks,
Paul.
arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot-bamboo.c|1
arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot-ebony.c
Segher Boessenkool writes:
Every occurrence of r7 here is wrong (and some of the r6). Is there
any reason to do this in assembler code at all?
The fact that the obvious C code generates ... a call to __ucmpdi2? :)
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Do we have any indication that it performs better than the C one ?
I would expect it to, given that the assembler one has two branches in
the per-byte loop compared to 3 in the C version.
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Segher Boessenkool writes:
Anyway, this asm code has bugs, as do both the current C version in the
kernel, and the code I posted. We need to do better :-)
The only bug I know of in the asm code is the behaviour when the count
is zero. Do you know of any other?
Paul.
Olof Johansson writes:
Please pull from 'for-2.6.26' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/pasemi.git for-2.6.26
to receive the following updates. They have all been posted to the list
previously, and had only minor updates to remove a couple of compiler
warnings:
Kumar Gala writes:
These are fixes to forward on to linus (based on his tree).
Are you going to put in the fix for swap on 8xx in arch/ppc?
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Manish Ahuja writes:
+config PHYP_DUMP
+ bool Hypervisor-assisted dump (EXPERIMENTAL)
+ depends on PPC_PSERIES EXPERIMENTAL
+ default y
I think this should default to n for now (i.e. leave out the default
line entirely). We can make it default to y later.
Paul.
Manish Ahuja writes:
-static void
-release_memory_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
+static
+void release_memory_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
This change looks rather pointless. If you have to change it, I'd
prefer:
static void
Manish Ahuja writes:
+#else /* CONFIG_PHYP_DUMP */
+int early_init_dt_scan_phyp_dump(unsigned long node,
+ const char *uname, int depth, void *data) { return 0; }
This shouldn't be in the header file. Either put it in prom.c (and
make it return 1 so the of_scan_flat_dt call
Manish Ahuja writes:
+#define NUM_DUMP_SECTIONS 3
+#define DUMP_HEADER_VERSION 0x1
+#define DUMP_REQUEST_FLAG 0x1
+#define DUMP_SOURCE_CPU 0x0001
+#define DUMP_SOURCE_HPTE 0x0002
+#define DUMP_SOURCE_RMO 0x0011
I think it would be clearer if you use a tab to line up the values,
like this:
device trees.
Michael Ellerman (1):
[POWERPC] Fix large hash table allocation on Cell blades
Paul Mackerras (1):
[POWERPC] Add __ucmpdi2 for 64-bit comparisons in 32-bit kernels
Scott Wood (1):
[POWERPC] 8xx: Fix wrapper platform for adder875, and combine defconfigs.
Theodore Ts'o
Manish Ahuja writes:
If Mike and Paul are okay, then I will leave this bit as is and fix all
other issues and comments.
Well, part of the problem is the semantic dissonance caused by having
a static variable called global. Please change the name
phyp_dump_global to phyp_dump_vars or
Sudhir Kumar writes:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address
0xd82e
Looks like some driver tried to access I/O port 0x2e without checking
whether there was possibly anything there first.
Faulting instruction address: 0xc074ded8
cpu 0x0: Vector: 300
Olaf Hering writes:
I cant reproduce this bug on my board, but:
The global primary_ipic in arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c can remain NULL if
ipic_init() fails. init_ipic_sysfs() will crash in that case.
Something like this may fix it:
Is this needed for 2.6.25? Is the system at all usable
Michael Ellerman writes:
The PCI bridge representing the PCIE root complex on Axon, contains device
BARs for a memory range and ROM that define inbound accesses. This confuses
the kernel resource management code, the resources need to be hidden when
Axon is a host bridge.
Since you didn't
|6 +
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/iommu.c| 41 ---
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c| 36 ++
16 files changed, 835 insertions(+), 534 deletions(-)
commit 93ce4e2d2d7404e80d5612fb1cc13d4aad5e42fc
Author: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Mar 20 11:21:32
Roland McGrath writes:
Are there any powerpc instructions that can read or change the MSR
explicitly from user mode? Any that can see or affect the MSR_SE bit?
No and no.
e.g. x86 has pushf/popf unprivileged instructions, with which a user
program can both see the single-step flag set, and
Nathan Lynch writes:
Searching ibm,drc-names is necessary, but is it sufficient? That is,
can there be a system that has an HEA adapter without that property
being present? Thinking in particular about single-partition systems
that run without an HMC attached.
PAPR doesn't seem to say
Wolfgang Grandegger writes:
Bartlomiej Sieka wrote:
Grant Likely wrote:
Paul, my git server is down at the moment. Can you please pick this
one up for .25? It is needed to boot the tqm5200 board.
Could we also have similar fixes for cm5200.dts and motionpro.dts picked
up? I could
Grant Likely writes:
The MDIO node in the lite5200b.dts file needs to also claim compatibility
with the older mpc5200 chip.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Paul, this one should also go in for .26
OK, I'll put it in the powerpc-next branch. Or did you mean it should
go
Roland McGrath writes:
Define the forced_successful_syscall_return() macro to
pair with our force_successful_syscall_return() definition.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks OK to me, but what's it useful for?
Paul.
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Kumar Gala writes:
since you are going to send something to linus let me update the fsl
defconfigs and send you a pull request.
OK -- I'm about to send Linus a pull request now in case he feels like
releasing 2.6.25 this weekend. I'll send him another pull request
with your defconfig update
and so
the fec driver should work.
This removes .type = dma-controller from the bestcomm driver's
mpc52xx_bcom_of_match table to solve the problem.
Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
Josh Boyer writes:
This adds a function called of_device_is_available that checks the state
of the status property of a device. If the property is absent or set to
either okay or ok, it returns 1. Otherwise it returns 0.
Well actually...
+ if (statlen 0) {
+ if
with the older mpc5200 chip. Otherwise the driver won't find the device.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
commit eff2f1ec37c114fda63ac1dd15c9ca9ac7e68db4
Author: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon Mar 24 08:56:06 2008
I have added the patches listed below to the master and powerpc-next
branches of the powerpc.git repository, and pulled in Linus' current
tree.
Paul.
Manish Ahuja (10):
[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Documentation
[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Reserve and release memory
Linus,
Olof Johansson has a defconfig update for the pasemi platform that he
would like to have in 2.6.25, so please do:
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
Thanks,
Paul.
arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig | 142
we
can't forget to do it.
Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
commit 5c29934de29ddd7ecd913d83cad28e872f2e8c78
Author: Olof Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue Mar 25
Segher Boessenkool writes:
For RAMs we
need something to indicate that it's memory but intended for secondary
storage, not as main memory.
How it is intended to be used is not a property of the hardware, so
that information doesn't belong in the device tree at all. The Linux
platform
Segher Boessenkool writes:
It's still the (platform) probe code its responsibility to figure
out what (if anything) to do with any device. And main memory
is probed differently (via /chosen/memory, for example) anyway.
Well, actually, Linux searches for all nodes with device_type memory,
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