From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
linas@austin.ibm.com, valvoline <valvoline@vrlteam.org>,
linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM94306
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:25:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074309942.8359.24.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040116195406.GA25566@iram.es>
> Anyway, since you seem to have ties inside IBM ;-), you might
> know why they do not even give a list of differences of the
> 970 implementation. I know from another source that the 970 does
> not have BATs, but supports large pages with a size of 16MB.
Yup, it's more/less a POWER4 in this regard (which is probably
as badly documented :)
I'll check out the status of public specs, I _think_ that there is
some doc in the process of beeing cleaned up & declassified for this
chip, but I'm not 100% sure at this point.
> Now the fact that the 970 does not support backwards-endian is a very
> good thing. From time to time (although it has been less frequent
> recently) somebody suggest on the list that Linux/PPC switches to the
> dark side of the endianness. The fact that some processors don't support
> it will be a killer argument.
Hehe, you know, there isn't much risk that we take such a patch in
the first place anyway :)
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-17 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-14 16:11 Broadcom BCM94306 valvoline
2004-01-15 0:13 ` linas
2004-01-15 9:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-15 11:50 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-01-15 13:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-15 13:12 ` Sven Luther
2004-01-15 13:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-16 19:54 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-01-16 23:19 ` linas
2004-01-17 3:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-01-17 18:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-19 14:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-19 22:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-20 18:01 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-21 17:27 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-01-15 13:39 ` Colin Leroy
2004-01-16 22:09 ` Gabriel Paubert
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