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From: "support" <support@skycomputers.com>
To: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: waite@skycomputers.com, roel.kluin@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, galak@gate.crashing.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] powerpc: Sky CPU: redundant or incorrect tests on unsigned
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:47:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7AAE08D947A546FB84E5992F288C0A32@your4dacd0ea75> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1265242715.8287.127.camel@pasglop

I doubt we'll be going to be using 7448's any more for future product lines.

Dave Bushee
Director OEM Sales and Services
SKY Computers Inc.
27 Industrial Ave.
978-250-2420 x232
www.skycomputers.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "support" <support@skycomputers.com>
Cc: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>; 
<roel.kluin@gmail.com>; <galak@gate.crashing.org>; <gorcunov@gmail.com>; 
<waite@skycomputers.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] powerpc: Sky CPU: redundant or incorrect tests on 
unsigned


> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:10 -0500, support wrote:
>> The sky cpu is a PPC7448.
>> I'm actually amazed that you guys are still working on a problem for
>> a
>> product that was finished a number of years ago, at the request of
>> someone
>> who hasn't worked here for years.
>> I sorry you, seem to have been wasting your time.
>> I think, but am NOT sure,  that our HAA function sets it off.
>> http://www.skycomputers.com/Systems/HAA_HMM.php
>>
>> Still, we have finished the product some time ago, and as far as
>> reported
>> have no problems.
>> Again, I'm sorry you have wasted any time on this, we just recently
>> found
>> these emails.
>
> Well, there seem to be some code in the Linux kernel related to that CPU
> that is either dead or incomplete. So if you guys have no interest in
> it, we might just rip it out completely.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-04  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-02 22:40 [patch 1/2] powerpc: Sky CPU: redundant or incorrect tests on unsigned akpm
2010-02-03 23:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-02-04  0:10   ` support
2010-02-04  0:18     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-02-04  1:47       ` support [this message]
2010-02-04  2:01         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-02-04 12:38           ` Sky Support

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