From: Matthew Locke <mlocke@mvista.com>
To: akuster@dslextreme.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/Patch] 4xx idle loop
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:50:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3F04F7.1020005@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D3E4145.8030500@dslextreme.com
akuster wrote:
>
> I was going though some old 4xx kernels I have and found an
> implimentation of idle.c that had support for 4xx. I believe the reason
> it never made is out was the hacking we did to make it work. So I
> propose that we modify the kernel/Makefile to use ppc4xx_idel.o instead
> of idle.o when 4xx is configured. That way we have a clean
> implimentation for 4xx idle functions and not touch the generic ppc idle
> file. The function names would not change.
Rather than replace the whole idle loop, I would allow for
sub-arch/processor specific code in the idle loop. Perhaps move the
power_save routine into the platform code?
>
> Armin
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 5:55 [RFC/Patch] 4xx idle loop akuster
2002-07-24 19:50 ` Matthew Locke [this message]
2002-07-25 5:38 ` akuster
2002-07-25 5:39 ` cort
2002-07-25 6:54 ` cort
2002-07-25 16:51 ` Matthew Locke
2002-07-25 16:53 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 16:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-07-25 17:55 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 18:04 ` Todd Poynor
2002-07-25 19:20 ` Dan Malek
2002-07-27 16:30 ` akuster
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