[PATCH 0/20] powerpc: base 64-bit Book3E processor support

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:02 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Here is a series of patches that implement some basic support
> for 64-bit Book3E processors that comply to architecture 2.06.
>
> There is no specific processor announced yet. The patches make
> some shortcut which means they currently rely on an implementation
> that supports MMU v2 with support for the "HES" feature (HW entry
> select) and with support for the "TLB reservation" feature. They
> also assume a single unified TLB array. I shouldn't be very hard
> to implement support for other variants of the architecture on
> top of this though.
>
> The current set of patch has no proper support yet for hugetlb,
> nor for "special" interrupt levels (debug, critical and machine
> check). Some minimal support for debug/critical levels is provided
> specifically for the "Debug" interrupt (single step etc...) only
> when it occurs from within user space code.
>
> The intend is to merge these in 2.6.32. They rely on pretty much
> all the other patches I've been posting lately including the
> generic changes to add the virtual address argument to pte_free_tlb.
>

Are these in a git tree/branch.  Makes it a bit easier to test out on  
FSL booke-32 to make sure we didn't break anything.

- k