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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>,
	paulus@samba.org, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	timur@freescale.com
Subject: Re: linux support for freescale e5500 core?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:33:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284701585.30449.102.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7EDBB1DD-BB9D-417D-8F4E-B9D5D9E030EF@kernel.crashing.org>

On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 00:17 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Not sure how the 970 bit worked, but this seems a bit problematic for
> switching between kernel and application for how we do this on
> e500mc/e5500.  We'd have to touch the control bit on every exception
> path which seems ugly to me.

Unless the kernel uses dcbzl (feature fixup replacement ?)

In that case it's on context switch only.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-17  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16 20:06 linux support for freescale e5500 core? Chris Friesen
2010-09-16 21:39 ` Scott Wood
2010-09-16 21:44   ` Chris Friesen
2010-09-16 22:03     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-16 22:26       ` Chris Friesen
2010-09-17  0:03         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-17  5:17           ` Kumar Gala
2010-09-17  5:33             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-09-17  6:36               ` Chris Friesen
2010-09-17  7:39                 ` Kumar Gala

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