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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't access HID registers if running on a Hypervisor.
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:09:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150978183.3633.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6BBF4F7C-1375-41FF-8D42-43BEC67194CC@watson.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 06:58 -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:

> 970s consider this a no-op (I believe an expensive one) especially  
> when you consider some of the synchronization issues around the mtspr  
> HIDx.
> And though this is 970 specific code, Cell and future processors,  
> will no longer allow writing to to these registers if !(MSR[0]=1 &&  
> MSR[PR]=0)

Fair enough, let's fix it.

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-22 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-21 23:15 [PATCH] Don't access HID registers if running on a Hypervisor Jimi Xenidis
2006-06-21 23:51 ` Olof Johansson
2006-06-22 10:58   ` Jimi Xenidis
2006-06-22 12:09     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-06-21 23:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-06-22  2:35   ` Jimi Xenidis
2006-06-22 16:23     ` Olof Johansson
2006-06-22 17:22       ` Jimi Xenidis

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