[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] spufs: Avoid restarting MFC in context saving

Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
Wed Jul 4 08:47:37 EST 2007


> I think that such an operation is nonsense; I understand that if we
> don't want to change the MFC operation state, the Sm bit must be set
> every time we write values to the register.

Ahh, I see what you're doing - using the Sm bit to preserve the MFC 
status *for that particular write*, rather than doing an inb(), or-ing 
the new value in, then outb().

In that case, looks good to me.

Cheers,


Jeremy



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