Re: anyone using Itanium B-step support?

James E Wilson
2005-01-28T01:24:02Z

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On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:56, James E Wilson wrote:
> However, rather than add more ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC support to the
> kernel, I think it makes more sense to obsolete it and remove it.

Here is the change I am suggesting.

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*** Kconfig.orig Sat Aug 14 03:56:22 2004
--- Kconfig Thu Jan 27 17:16:51 2005
*************** config IA64_BRL_EMU
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depends on ITANIUM
default y

- config ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC
- bool "Itanium B-step specific code"
- depends on ITANIUM
- help
- Select this option to build a kernel for an Itanium prototype system
- with a B-step CPU. You have a B-step CPU if the "revision" field in
- /proc/cpuinfo has a value in the range from 1 to 4.
-
# align cache-sensitive data to 128 bytes
config IA64_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
int
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*** Makefile.orig Sat Aug 14 03:54:48 2004
--- Makefile Thu Jan 27 17:17:03 2005
*************** ifeq ($(GCC_VERSION),3)
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endif
endif

- cflags-$(CONFIG_ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC) += -mb-step
-
CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
head-y := arch/ia64/kernel/head.o arch/ia64/kernel/init_task.o

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