[PATCH 2/7] [RFC] add bluegene entry to cputable

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri May 20 11:50:51 EST 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:08 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:24 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> >> +             .dcache_bsize           = 32,
> >> +             .cpu_setup              = __setup_cpu_460gt,
> >                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Are you sure ?
> >
> 
> That surprised me too, I figured it must have been a close enough
> match (at least in the 2.6.29.1 time frame which is where I'm trying
> to merge the BG/P patches up from.  The kittyhawk patches don't even
> use this, so its possible we could just remove it.
>
> _GLOBAL(__setup_cpu_460ex)
> _GLOBAL(__setup_cpu_460gt)
>         mflr    r4
>         bl      __init_fpu_44x
>         bl      __fixup_440A_mcheck
>         mtlr    r4
>         blr
> 
> Looks like the 460 setup invokes a bunch of 440 calls!  Would you
> prefer I setup my own entry point (setup_cpu_bgp or setup_cpu_450)
> which makes the same calls?

Yes, add an entry. 460's are just 440's btw :-)

Cheers,
Ben.




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