Posting updated patch to the list... >>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >>>  > >>>  > Nice, though I didn't notice any visible improvement in my tests. >>> >>> This early in boot process there is not much to output; and I test >>>  recent kernel which may use different startup sequence. >>>  I modified openbios cif handler to output arguments and I now can see >>>  visible difference. >>> >>> >>>  > >>>  > About the patch, there are a few problems: >>>  > - it breaks Sparc32 >>> >>> You mean it stops working? >> >> Does not even build. Fixed now. >>>  > - commented out code is ugly >>>  > - if and else should be on the same line as '{' or '}' >>>  > - long lines should be wrapped >>>  > - in the line: >>>  > +    return (((tag_access_register & 0x1fff)<<48)|(tag_access_register >> 22)); >>>  >  there should be white space between ) and << and 48. >>>  > >>> >> >> Also the ")|(" in between is crowded. >> >> Maybe the coding style does not describe this well enough. BTW Supplying indent template would be great. Please see the updated patch qemu-sparc64-tsb-asi-2.patch attached. -- Kind regards, Igor V. Kovalenko