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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:

> Paul, do you reckon the best solution here is to clear ppc_md.power_save
> when detecting an SMP powermac ? (Or the flush-on-lock property)

Yes, that sounds good.  It would let us get rid of the runtime cpu
feature check in idle_6xx.c too.

Paul.