Thanks everyone, will do.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Likely [mailto:grant.lik...@secretlab.ca]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:58 PM
> To: Josh Boyer
> Cc: John Linn; Tirumala Reddy Marri; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; 
> holl...@us.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: Question about DBCR0 initialization for 440
> 
> Hey John
> 
> We just discussed this on IRC.  Go ahead and generate a patch to
> unconditionally turn on DBCR0[IDM] in head_44x.S.  Don't even bother
> wrapping it in an #ifdef CONFIG_somthing block.  It should be safe,
> but we'll throw it into -next and see if anyone complains.  If it does
> cause problems, then it can be reworked to something a wee bit more
> conservative.
> 
> g.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:46 AM, John Linn <john.l...@xilinx.com> wrote:
> >> Josh, any thoughts on putting this into head_44x.S?
> >
> > The code in the fsl file looks like the right solution.  I do have an
> > odd question though, in that it's hard for the
> > kernel to really know if something like a BDI is running.  Namely,
> > that config option doesn't cover RiscWatch in an obvious manner.
> >
> > I also wonder if it's possible to have a host system be setting those
> > registers in a guest KVM system so the guest could be debugged with
> > gdb...  Hollis, any idea on that?
> >
> > josh
> >
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.


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