Re: How to dynamically disable/enable CPU features?

2008-02-24 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:01 +1100 > Von: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: Milton Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > Betreff: Re: How to dynami

Re: How to dynamically disable/enable CPU features?

2008-02-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> The flag is in POSSIBLE. I now use this code in the platform probe > function to nop out the code affected by the flag: > > cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features &= ~CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT; > /* Patch out unwanted feature. */ > do_feature_fixups(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features, > PTRRELOC(&__sta

Re: How to dynamically disable/enable CPU features?

2008-02-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:07 +0100, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering how to disable or enable CPU features based on the board the > kernel is running on. In my case I want to disable the > CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT flag for 74xx CPUs, because it locks up the machine. > I tried to clear t

Re: How to dynamically disable/enable CPU features?

2008-02-22 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Hi, Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:24:38 -0600 > Von: Milton Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: ppcdev > Betreff: Re: How to dynamically disable/enable CPU features? > We handle cpu features

Re: How to dynamically disable/enable CPU features?

2008-02-22 Thread Milton Miller
At Fri Feb 22 07:07:58 EST 2008, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > I'm wondering how to disable or enable CPU features based on the board > the > kernel is running on. In my case I want to disable the > CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT flag for 74xx CPUs, because it locks up the > machine. > I tried to clear the fla

How to dynamically disable/enable CPU features?

2008-02-21 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Hi, I'm wondering how to disable or enable CPU features based on the board the kernel is running on. In my case I want to disable the CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT flag for 74xx CPUs, because it locks up the machine. I tried to clear the flag in the platform's *_probe() function with the following code: