405EX Rev D mis-identification?

Lee Nipper lee.nipper at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 02:01:11 EST 2010


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:06, Marc Chidester <marcchidester at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like the Rev D version of the 405EX chip without security
> will be identified as a 405EXr, based on the values in the cpu_specs
> table.  For 405EX/405EXr the pvr_mask is  0xffff0004 with the
> pvr_value's as 0x12910004 and 0x12910000 respectively. I see that the
> Rev D PVR value for the 405EX without security is 0x12911473, which
> would mask out to the EXr value.
>
> Is there an algorithm update needed or am I missing something?

With 405EX Rev D, we have noticed that we must reset our board
one time after the initial powerup to make the PVR read correctly.

See this post:
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-December/079099.html


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