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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: confused about HID1 bits and G5
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:29:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083191370.21436.81.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <408FEBB6.105@nortelnetworks.com>


> It appears that we're relying on the firmware to set up a lot of the bits in this register--is there
> any reason we aren't forcing particular values?

Forcing values in HIDs is BAD. The firmware may set/clear bits to work
around specific CPU or north bridge bugs for example. That's why I need
to change the code that force-clear HID4/5 one of these days too and
instead just clear the bits I want to be cleared.

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-28 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-28 17:36 confused about HID1 bits and G5 Chris Friesen
2004-04-28 22:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-04-29 13:54   ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-29 15:05     ` Greg Watson
2004-04-29 21:49       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-29 23:16         ` Greg Watson
2004-04-29 21:46     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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