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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT for 7448.
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On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 10:16 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> So, like, the other day Benjamin Herrenschmidt mumbled:
> > 
> > I still maintain it should be a runtime thing tho :-)
> > 
> > Ben.
> 
> So, could you comment on my proposed solution doing
> things exactly this way?  Speifically, would folks
> prefer the dynamic 
> 
>     number_of_cpus() == 1 

Sorry I don't remember the actual patch, must have missed it... I
suppose we could have generic code in early_init_devtree set the default
for this based on cpu_possible_map() containing more than one bit and
have platforms using one of those broken bridges force the bit in from
their probe routine.

Ben.