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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:51:33 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171918293.18571.69.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DA0B33.8060400@am.sony.com>


> It won't do any good, or it won't work?  I figured it would just branch to
> _zimage_start on non-SMP systems.

Well, the SPRN_CTRLF register only exist on some processors. Also,
non-IBM processors are likely to do things differently. In fact, I'm not
even sure that all POWERx processor use the bits in there the same way.

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-19 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-18  1:17 [RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support Geoff Levand
2007-02-18  1:40 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19 15:03   ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 19:55     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 20:40       ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 20:51         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-02-19 21:35     ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19 21:39       ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 21:51         ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19  0:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-20  2:25 ` David Gibson
2007-02-20 14:23   ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-20 15:44     ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-20 16:02       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-21  0:16         ` David Gibson
2007-02-23 17:06         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-23 17:52           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-21  0:16       ` David Gibson
2007-02-23 17:06       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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