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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:58:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38A2A735-6898-11D9-AF22-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105956993.26551.327.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

[snip]

> This makes it compile on PPC, but highlights the difference between
>  'cur_cpu_spec' on ppc32 and ppc64. Why is 'cur_cpu_spec' an array on
>  ppc32? Isn't 'cur' supposed to imply 'current'?

I can only guess to handle an SMP case with two different revs of the 
same processor that might have slightly different errata.

- kumar

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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: <hpa@zytor.com>, "Olaf Hering" <olh@suse.de>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:58:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38A2A735-6898-11D9-AF22-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105956993.26551.327.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

[snip]

> This makes it compile on PPC, but highlights the difference between
>  'cur_cpu_spec' on ppc32 and ppc64. Why is 'cur_cpu_spec' an array on
>  ppc32? Isn't 'cur' supposed to imply 'current'?

I can only guess to handle an SMP case with two different revs of the 
same processor that might have slightly different errata.

- kumar


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-17 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200501082324.j08NOIva030415@hera.kernel.org>
2005-01-09 15:13 ` [PATCH] raid6: altivec support Olaf Hering
2005-01-17 10:16   ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-17 10:16     ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-17 14:58     ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2005-01-17 14:58       ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19  4:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19  4:11       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19  7:43       ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19  7:43         ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19  9:41         ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-19  9:41           ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-20 17:55           ` Tom Rini
2005-01-20 17:55             ` Tom Rini
2005-01-19 14:45         ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 14:45           ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 14:48           ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 14:48             ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 14:54             ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 14:54               ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 15:08             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 15:08               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 15:15               ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 15:15                 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 15:27                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 15:27                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 23:25             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19 23:25               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-20  7:40               ` [Lists-linux-kernel-news] " Jon Masters
2005-01-20  7:40                 ` Jon Masters
2005-01-19 18:07           ` Jon Masters
2005-01-19 18:07             ` Jon Masters
2005-01-19 23:22         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19 23:22           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-23 11:17           ` Sven Luther
2005-01-23 11:17             ` Sven Luther

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