[PATCH] powerpc: Disable external interrupts in bootwrapper

[Mark A. Greer]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:05:11PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 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.

Ah, okay.