[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: disable timebase synchronization under the hypervisor

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 22 21:44:34 EST 2011


On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 02:10 +0000, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> We might want to generically have a CPU feature bit indicating we are
>>> running in guest vs. HV mode. I know Paulus is planning to introduce one
>>> so you may want to sync with him.
>> 
>> Are you talking about CPU_FTR_HVMODE_206?
> 
> Well, not exactly. Paul wants to break that up since we're adding some
> primitive support for 201 HV mode too (for 970's). Last we discussed,
> the plan was to go for a generic HV mode bit and a separate bit for the
> version.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.

Any ETA on Paul's intro of the FTR bit?  If not I'll pull this into my 'next' tree and we can clean up later.

- k



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