From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 01/20] cell: add RAS support
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:50:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060620175007.GE4845@pb15.lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606201826.54290.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:26:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:43, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >
> > > This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability,
> > > Availability and Serviceability" features.
> >
> > Does it really make sense to do this under a config option? I don't see
> > why anyone would not want to know that their machine is about to melt.
> >
> You can only have that when running on bare metal. Machines that run
> on a hypervisor can't run that code.
Well, it's harmless to build it in even on hypervisor systems, right?
> It probably makes sense to auto-select that option for CONFIG_CELL_BLADE
> though.
Sounds like a reasonable trade-off.
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-20 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-19 18:33 [patch 00/20] cell: patches for 2.6.18 arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 01/20] cell: add RAS support arnd
2006-06-20 15:43 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Olof Johansson
2006-06-20 16:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-06-20 17:50 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2006-06-20 19:00 ` Geoff Levand
2006-06-21 1:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 02/20] cell: fix interrupt priority handling arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 03/20] cell: update defconfig arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 04/20] cell: register SPUs as sysdevs arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 05/20] cell: always build spu base into the kernel arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 06/20] spufs: restore mapping of mssync register arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 07/20] spufs: fix deadlock in spu_create error path arnd
2006-06-20 1:16 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 08/20] spufs: set up correct SLB entries for 64k pages arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 09/20] spufs: add a phys-id attribute to each SPU context arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 10/20] spufs: fix initial state of wbox file arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 11/20] spufs: use kzalloc in create_spu arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 12/20] spufs: dont try to access SPE channel 1 count arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 13/20] spufs: split the Cell BE support into generic and platform dependant parts arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 14/20] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 15/20] spufs: fix spu irq affinity setting arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 16/20] spufs: remove stop_code from struct spu arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 17/20] spufs: fix Makefile for "make clean" arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 18/20] spufs: clear class2 interrupt status before wakeup arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 19/20] spufs: fail spu_create with invalid flags arnd
2006-06-19 18:33 ` [patch 20/20] spufs: one more fix for 64k pages arnd
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