[PATCH 5/6] Support for the Ebony 440GP reference board in arch/powerpc

[David Gibson]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:37:37PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>> +static void ebony_exit(void)
> >>> +{
> >>> +     unsigned long tmp;
> >>> +
> >>> +     asm volatile (
> >>> +             "mfspr  %0,%1\n"
> >>> +             "oris   %0,%0,%2 at h\n"
> >>> +             "mtspr  %1,%0"
> >>> +             : "=&r"(tmp) : "i"(SPRN_DBCR0), "i"(DBCR0_RST_SYSTEM)
> >>
> >> You don't have to pass in the constants here, you can specify them in
> >> the asm. Makes it a little more readable.
> >
> > How?   CPP doesn't apply inside the strings.
> 
> So put it outside the strings:
> 
> +     asm volatile (
> +             "mfspr  %0," #SPRN_DBCR0 "\n\t"
> +             "oris   %0,%0," #DBCR0_RST_SYSTEM "@h\n\t"
> +             "mtspr  " #SPRN_DBCR0 ",%0"
> +             : "=&r"(tmp));

Um, I think stringify(SPRN_DBCR0) is needed there, not just a bare #.
At which point it's not entirely clear to be that just using the "i"
constraint isn't the simplest option after all.

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