linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Mark Chambers <markc@mail.com>
Cc: Embedded Linux PPC list <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: more questions about 8xx microcode patches
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:38:59 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407271736520.7534@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015b01c4741d$aca87010$0301a8c0@chuck2>


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Mark Chambers wrote:

> Robert,
>
> I know I've never had a need to use a microcode patch.  Maybe a quick
> survey - has anybody ever had a need to use two patches at once?  I'm
> suspecting you may be putting a lot of effort into something that's rarely
> needed.  Also, as Motorola updates their silicon the patches will likely
> become less relevant (less likely that new users will need the patches).

on my project alone, we've needed two different selections of those
patches.  so while it's not an earth-shattering modification, it
doesn't hurt and it sometimes helps.  and it makes the addition of any
future patches really trivial, if that ever happens.

rday

** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-27 20:23 more questions about 8xx microcode patches Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-27 21:07 ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-27 21:27   ` Looking for GT64260 MPSC serial console driver Jeff Domogala
2004-07-27 22:50     ` Mark A. Greer
2004-07-27 23:02       ` Mark A. Greer
2004-07-27 21:38   ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2004-07-27 21:32 ` more questions about 8xx microcode patches Dan Malek
2004-07-27 21:36   ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-27 22:30     ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-07-28 11:21       ` David Ho
2004-07-27 21:56   ` Robert P. J. Day
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-27 21:44 Wells, Charles

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.60.0407271736520.7534@localhost.localdomain \
    --to=rpjday@mindspring.com \
    --cc=linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org \
    --cc=markc@mail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).