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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't access HID registers if running on a Hypervisor.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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.