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Subject: Re: [RFC] "indirect" DCR access (40x, BookE)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@motorola.com>
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On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 01:25, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Look in u-boot.  They have some user commands that allow
> reading/writing dcr's.  These commands are written with self modifying
> code, I would recommend that we reuse that.
>
> Also, it begs the question of should this be extended to SPRs, not that
> I have come across a case with SPRs that I need to iterate over a large
> list.

That would way too slow for DCRs used in drivers for example,

I much prefer Eugene's idea.

Ben.


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