[POWERPC] [RFC] Fix 8xx tlbie definition

Vitaly Bordug vitb at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Nov 17 09:28:37 EST 2007


On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:06:29 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:28 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Git commit e701d269aa28996f3502780951fe1b12d5d66b49 introduced an
> > incorrect definition for _tlbie on PowerPC 8xx platforms.  Only the
> > address should be passed to the function.  This patch corrects the
> > definition of _tlbie and the related tlb flushing functions for 8xx.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> That conflicts with the patch I posted to fix it differently (I kept
> the additional argument).
> 

Where can I grab it to give a try? My linuxppc archive is silent for some reason..
> Which one do we take ?
> 

If your solution will work out, I'd agree with Kumar to have this thing consistent.
If not - It might be cheapier just to fix it this gross way, to keep 8xx stuff running. 

-- 
Sincerely, Vitaly



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