[PATCH] powerpc: Fix 44x Machine Check handling

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:45 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 18:41 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 01:40 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> I'm not sure I like this. It introduces another cpu feature flag,
>>> that we'll soon run out of if it's used to signify version info per
>>> implementation like this.
>>>
>>> 1) The SET_IVOR could be done from the cpu_setups for 440A instead
>>> (i.e. introduce one).
>>>
>>> 2) Please just move the machine check handlers out to individual  
>>> ones
>>> instead of using the generic one. That way you don't need runtime  
>>> checks
>>> between the two (they don't seem to share much of it as-is anyway).
>>>
>>> With the above two changes, you shouldn't need the feature bit any  
>>> more.
>>
>> We can easily make the cpu features bigger ... But ok, I'll have a  
>> look
>> at doing it the way you suggest.
>
> Note that first, I'd like to figure out if there are other relevant
> differences with 440A ... arch/ppc didn't list any and diff'ing PDFs  
> is
> not fun but if people around here know, please speak up


I think it added isel support.

- k