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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:12:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/e6500: TLB miss handler with hardware
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On 06/14/2012 08:05 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 18:41 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>>  - Like on e5500, the linear mapping is bolted, so we don't need the
>>    overhead of supporting nested tlb misses.
>>
>> Note that hardware tablewalk does not work in rev1 of e6500.
>> We do not expect to support e6500 rev1 in mainline Linux.
> 
> I'll try to review that in more details next week.... 
> 
> Ben.

ping

-Scott