[PATCH] disable HMT for RS64 cpus

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Tue Feb 8 01:40:58 EST 2005


Hardware multithreading for RS64 cpus is currently broken. Anton sent me
a patch a few weeks ago, but it did not work.
So just hide the config option for the time being.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de>

diff -purNx tags ../linux-2.6.11-rc3.orig/arch/ppc64/Kconfig ./arch/ppc64/Kconfig
--- ../linux-2.6.11-rc3.orig/arch/ppc64/Kconfig	2005-02-03 02:55:53.000000000 +0100
+++ ./arch/ppc64/Kconfig	2005-02-07 15:36:25.079315558 +0100
@@ -194,7 +194,10 @@ config NR_CPUS
 
 config HMT
 	bool "Hardware multithreading"
-	depends on SMP && PPC_PSERIES
+	depends on SMP && PPC_PSERIES && BROKEN
+	help
+	  This option enables hardware multithreading on RS64 cpus.
+	  pSeries systems p620 and p660 have such a cpu type.
 
 config DISCONTIGMEM
 	bool "Discontiguous Memory Support"



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