Problem with 745x errata in 2.6.8
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Sep 19 20:23:23 EST 2004
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 20:16, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Actually, I think it's kept in a locked cupboard in a room labelled
> "beware of the leopard", in a basement at the bottom of some broken
> stairs. FWIW, the option biting me is CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT - no real
> surprises there.
>
> I'll have another go at trying to talk to them. Thanks for your
> responses.
Yes, we have to set the "M" (coherent) bit on all memory pages even
when not running SMP on those CPUs to work around a CPU bug.
Ben.
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