From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Jeff Walther , Subject: Re: PPB Bug in PowerSurge: was: 9600 maturity Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:57:54 +0100 Message-Id: <20020415075754.31208@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >Thank you for that information, Ben. I'm really more of a MacOS guy >and subscribed to these lists out of an interest in low level >hardware issues. There doesn't seem to be any other forum that >discusses hardware specifically, so you guys (and other Linux/Darwin >lists) who sometimes must program to the hardware are the next best >thing. > >Do you have suggestions on where I might begin a hunt for such an OF >patch? I assume this is something that one could load in NVRAM under >any OS that will take care of the bug until the next time the NVRAM >is reset? Yes. DTS provides one for some machines (for example the 6400) if you ask. Some PCI card vendors with a pci<->pci bridge on their card need it. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/