[PATCH 5/6] PowerPC 440EPx: Sequoia board support
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 3 22:35:36 EST 2007
> Depends on interpretation. IIRC currently the same die is used for 440EPx and
> 440GRx. I could be wrong here though and it is just a bug in the chip. But
> anyway we should support this somehow. Could be that I missed this in the
> current 440GRx (Rainier) arch/ppc support too. I have to admit, that no
> clever solution comes to my mind right away though.
We can always come up with some kind of runtime detection, by turning on
MSR:FP, issuing an fp instruction and catching the illegal instruction
fault if any :-)
Ben.
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