BUG: Patch "Convert some mftb/mftbu into mfspr" breaks MPC885

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Nov 21 03:57:20 EST 2013


On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 10:37 +0100, leroy christophe wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> The patch "Convert some mftb/mftbu into
> mfspr" (beb2dc0a7a84be003ce54e98b95d65cc66e6e536) breaks startup on
> MPC885.
> 
> The CPU traps (SoftwareEmulation trap) at sched_clock() when trying to
> read TBU with mfspr.
> 
> Reverting the patch solves the issue.
> 
> What's the prefered way to fix this ?

I guess we need to add an ifdef.

-Scott





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