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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT for 7448. 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 May 2007 07:36:48 +1000."
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Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 10:16:29 -0500
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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So, like, the other day Benjamin Herrenschmidt mumbled:
> 
> I still maintain it should be a runtime thing tho :-)
> 
> Ben.

So, could you comment on my proposed solution doing
things exactly this way?  Speifically, would folks
prefer the dynamic 

    number_of_cpus() == 1 

and possibly checking the device tree or SMP map, or the 

    #ifndef SMP

test guarding the removal of the CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT bit?

Thanks,
jdl