[PATCH] powerpc: Disable external interrupts in bootwrapper
    Geoff Levand 
    geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
       
    Wed Mar 28 11:05:11 EST 2007
    
    
  
Mark A. Greer wrote:
> Disable external interrupts very early in the bootwrapper in case
> the firmware left a device generating interrupts.
This is just a guess at what is happening, but I think the OF on my
G5 uses the timer interrupt as a kind of watchdog timer, so that if
the loaded code hangs, OF will regain control.  If you disable
interrupts, you may loose this functionality.
-Geoff
    
    
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