From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from kunk.qbjnet.com (vci-113.dsl.onvoy.net [137.192.135.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "qbjnet.com", Issuer "qbjnet.com" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC212DE652 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:52:33 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <20080325174549.24653.qmail@kunk.qbjnet.com> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: add kernel parameter to set l3cr for G4 cpu To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:45:49 -0500 (CDT) Sender: bob@qbjnet.com From: Robert Brose MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="ELM1206467149-24313-0_" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --ELM1206467149-24313-0_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Old-world powermacs don't set L2CR or L3CR on processor upgrade cards. This simple patch allows the setting of L3CR via a kernel parameter (like the existing kernel parameter to set L2CR). This is the first time I've posted a patch, please excuse me if I've broken protocol in any way. Signed-off-by: Robert Brose --ELM1206467149-24313-0_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="l3cr_patch.txt" Content-Description: --- linux-2.6.24/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c.orig 2008-03-10 11:24:16.566354597 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.24/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c 2008-03-10 11:22:22.711626305 -0500 @@ -172,6 +172,18 @@ int __init ppc_setup_l2cr(char *str) } __setup("l2cr=", ppc_setup_l2cr); +/* Checks "l3cr=xxxx" command-line option REB */ +int __init ppc_setup_l3cr(char *str) +{ + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_L3CR)) { + unsigned long val = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0); + printk(KERN_INFO "l3cr set to %lx\n", val); + _set_L3CR(val); /* and enable it */ + } + return 1; +} +__setup("l3cr=", ppc_setup_l3cr); + #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM /* Generic nvram hooks used by drivers/char/gen_nvram.c */ --- linux-2.6.24/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.orig 2008-03-25 12:30:09.688082305 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.24/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-03-25 12:30:29.816083202 -0500 @@ -877,6 +877,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. l2cr= [PPC] + l3cr= [PPC] + lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS disabled it. --ELM1206467149-24313-0_--