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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linas@austin.ibm.com, valvoline <valvoline@vrlteam.org>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM94306
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:25:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074309942.8359.24.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040116195406.GA25566@iram.es>


> Anyway, since you seem to have ties inside IBM ;-), you might
> know why they do not even give a list of differences of the
> 970 implementation. I know from another source that the 970 does
> not have BATs, but supports large pages with a size of 16MB.

Yup, it's more/less a POWER4 in this regard (which is probably
as badly documented :)

I'll check out the status of public specs, I _think_ that there is
some doc in the process of beeing cleaned up & declassified for this
chip, but I'm not 100% sure at this point.

> Now the fact that the 970 does not support backwards-endian is a very
> good thing. From time to time (although it has been less frequent
> recently) somebody suggest on the list that Linux/PPC switches to the
> dark side of the endianness. The fact that some processors don't support
> it will be a killer argument.

Hehe, you know, there isn't much risk that we take such a patch in
the first place anyway :)

Ben.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-17  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14 16:11 Broadcom BCM94306 valvoline
2004-01-15  0:13 ` linas
2004-01-15  9:30   ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-15 11:50     ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-01-15 13:00       ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-15 13:12         ` Sven Luther
2004-01-15 13:18           ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-16 19:54         ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-01-16 23:19           ` linas
2004-01-17  3:25           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-01-17 18:21           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-19 14:11           ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-19 22:05             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-20 18:01               ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-21 17:27                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-01-15 13:39       ` Colin Leroy
2004-01-16 22:09         ` Gabriel Paubert

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