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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap stuffs
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:20:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990215192022.006915@mail.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9902151757.AA75924@marc.watson.ibm.com>


On Mon, Feb 15, 1999, David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

>	As Gabriel correctly explained, a "sync" instruction may be
>necessary before interrupts are enabled if some off-chip operation, like
>modifying an interrupt controller on the bus, was performed.  That is
>because of the bus operations which need to complete before interrupts can
>be enabled, not because of the enabling itself.

Yep, I knew this case, the sync after switching them OFF was just a
paranoid move on my part. Thanks for the tips.

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-15 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-14 14:02 bootstrap stuffs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-02-14 17:03 ` David Edelsohn
1999-02-14 18:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-02-15 17:57     ` David Edelsohn
1999-02-15 18:20       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
1999-02-16  0:02       ` Paul Mackerras
1999-02-16 11:24         ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-02-16 11:44       ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-02-16 16:43         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-02-16 17:39           ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-02-16 18:11             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-02-17  6:23               ` Cort Dougan
     [not found] <19990216134514.022163@mail.mipsys.com>
1999-02-16 13:18 ` Gabriel Paubert

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