[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] libea ppe side support

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:00:25AM -0500, Joel Schopp wrote:
> One of the items being worked on at IBM is symbol translation from ppe to 
> spe in order to make programming easier for the end user.  As part of that 
> project we are adding support for a number of functions that work on 
> effective addresses instead of local store addresses.  Some of these 
> functions require PPE side support and don't fall well into an existing 
> category.  This patch adds a new class of ppe assisted functions and the 
> first 4 of those functions to libspe2.
> 
> Please review and apply if there are no objections.

> +++ libspe2/spebase/default_libea_handler.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +
> +#define SPE_LIBEA_CLASS 0x2104
> +

I'm confused as to how this is working.

Isn't 0x2104 already in use by the kernel?

See arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c.

-- Patrick Mansfield