Please pull powerpc.git 'merge' branch

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Oct 26 00:09:56 EST 2006


On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Linus,
>
> Please do:
>
> git pull \
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
>
> to get some more PowerPC bugfixes, as listed below.  There is also a
> defconfig update and the addition of a new processor type (970GX) to
> the cpu table.  The first 4 listed under Ben H.'s name aren't strictly
> bugfixes in themselves, but are needed for the Cell timebase hardware
> bug workaround (the bug is that reads from the timebase may
> occasionally not return monotonically increasing values, as they
> implemented the timebase as two 32-bit counters).

Can you hold off on the this.  The following patch is still under  
discussion and the problem exists on more than just PPC.

[snip]

> Scott Wood:
>       [POWERPC] IPIC: Fix spinlock recursion in set_irq_handler

- kumar



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