[PATCH] powerpc: Fix PowerPC 750CL CPU features

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 12 23:53:22 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 08:49 -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> On Thu Apr 12 22:49:06 EST 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > PowerPC 750CL has high BATs.  The patch below sets cpu_features to 
> > match that.
> > Without it, the original firmware mappings in the high BATs aren't 
> > cleared
> > which can cause "odd" address translations to occur.
> 
> Lets say what it does:  which continue to override the linux 
> translations.

Sure, that's exactly what it does since without the HIGH_BATS feature
Linux doesn't know about them and therefore can't clear them.

josh




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