[PATCH] Don't access HID registers if running on a Hypervisor.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jun 22 22:09:43 EST 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 06:58 -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> 970s consider this a no-op (I believe an expensive one) especially
> when you consider some of the synchronization issues around the mtspr
> HIDx.
> And though this is 970 specific code, Cell and future processors,
> will no longer allow writing to to these registers if !(MSR[0]=1 &&
> MSR[PR]=0)
Fair enough, let's fix it.
Ben.
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