7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

Becky Bruce Becky.Bruce at freescale.com
Sat Apr 15 07:09:02 EST 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:07 -0700, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Becky Bruce writes:
>
>
>> Actually, I think the problem is that the code linux is using to turn
>> on nap mode is not guaranteed to put the processor in nap mode by the
>> time the blr in ppc6xx_idle occurs.
>>
>
> Thanks, Becky.
>
> This patch fixes it for me.  Comments, anyone?

Patch LGTM, as well.  I like the approach.

Thanks!
-Becky




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