From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: OF properties access ?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
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> But, the pmac OF (at least on the powerbook i got someone to check for
> me), does have a l2cr property, not a l2cr-value one. The same goes on
> for voltaire.debian.org, which is a dual G4 500MHz.
>
> Does this mean that the -value appended is for looking at the content of
> l2cr, or something such ?

No. The L2 is assumed to be set by the firmware. That "l2cr-value" is just
an optional thing that BootX can set before booting the kernel to force
a different L2 setup, typically used with G3 upgrade cards.

Ben.


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