[patch] PS3: Fix hardware watchpoints

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Thu Mar 15 03:57:38 EST 2007


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>> Geoff Levand writes:
>> 
>> > Add PS3 support for the PowerPC processor's Data Address Breakpoint
>> > Register (DABR).
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com>
>> > 
>> > ---
>> > Paul, please consider for 2.6.21.
>> 
>> It's nice and small, but it isn't really a bugfix as far as I can
>> see...  What's the downside of it not going into 2.6.21, apart from
>> some inconvenience in debugging things?
> 

...

> Maybe it's better to just queue them for 2.6.22 now, independent
> of the severity of bugs fixed by a given patch.

It doesn't matter so much, that's why I just said to consider for
2.6.21.

Paul, please just add to your for-2.6.22 branch.

-Geoff






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