[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 02/02][RFC] spufs: try to work without master run bit

Gerhard Stenzel gerhard.stenzel at de.ibm.com
Wed Feb 7 00:15:39 EST 2007


>  [ note: This patch is a hot-fix and RFC. ]
> 
> Current kernel uses the master run control bit (MFC_SR1[S]) to
> control SPE execution in spufs_run_spu(). PS3 hypervisor does not
> permit to change this bit.
> This cause Oops that Gerhard pointed out before. 

I build a kernel from Geoff's git tree and applied both patches. I run a 
few spu program samples and would like to confirm that the problem seems 
to be gone, i.e I did not observe it anymore.

Thank you, Gerhard




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