[RFC] powerpc/8xxx: Clean up setting of CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 18 11:42:57 EST 2009


> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
> index 48d7f5f..a36494e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
> @@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ extern const char *powerpc_base_platform;
>   * 74[45]x and an MPC107 host bridge. Also 83xx and PowerQUICC II
>   * require it for PCI "streaming/prefetch" to work properly.
>   */
> -#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_MPC10X_BRIDGE) \
> -	|| defined(CONFIG_PPC_83xx) || defined(CONFIG_8260)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_MPC10X_BRIDGE)
>  #define CPU_FTR_COMMON                  CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT
>  #else
>  #define CPU_FTR_COMMON                  0

Even the above sucks but at this stage, it's hard to do better. We
really need to fix ppc32 so that the feature fixup is done -after- the
platform probe, so that the platform gets a chance to stick in the bit
when needed.

Ben.





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