[PATCH] PPC64 pmac hotplug cpu

Zwane Mwaikambo zwane at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jan 17 15:37:28 EST 2005


Hello Ben,

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Looks good, but you could do even better :) I still want to look at the
> proper mecanism to flush the CPU cache on 970, but the idea here is to
> flush it, and put the CPU into a NAP loop (the 970 has no SLEEP mode)
> with the caches clean and MSR:EE off. We can later get it back with a
> soft reset.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll work on getting something together.

	Zwane




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