[PATCH] powerpc: enable NAP only on cpus who support it to avoid memory corruption
Olaf Hering
olh at suse.de
Sun Mar 12 21:40:04 EST 2006
On Sun, Mar 12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 22:58 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > commit 51d3082fe6e55aecfa17113dbe98077c749f724c enabled NAP unconditinally
> > on all powermacs. Early G3 cpus can not use it, the result is memory corruption.
>
> Ok, here is what I think is a proper fix: Just remove the code from
> setup.c since feature.c will already set powersave_nap when needed.
>
> Can you test asap please ? If it fixes the problem for you, I'll send
> the patch to Linus/Andrew with hopes that it will make it in 2.6.16
Yes, this helps.
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