On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 15:17 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >> Fine. But I believe that mfpvr emulation came first, which is the > >> point > >> I object to (see the mess that the fact that CPUID is available to > >> applications made to x86 when SSE registers were added). > > > > Heh, possibly, I don't remember... I added the cputable, I think we > > added mfpvr because we didn't have anything, then I added cputable > > which > > got us the HW caps, but some old stuff still relied on mfpvr so we > > couldn't completely remove it. > > If I have my history right end up, MFPVR emulation was added for MoL. > Which is funny (if you like that kind of thing) because it now hurts > all other "hypervisor in userspace" kind of things, that might want > to lie in their emulated PVR...
Are you sure ? MOL had a kernel module, it wouldn't have needed that... Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
