On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 17:56 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>> If we use the generic CPU target then mftb won't get turned into mfspr
>> (I assume this is what you meant by "tricky asm").  Does mfspr work
>> everywhere, including from userspace?  Or do we need to patch?  What
>> about 403GCX which seems to need some special SPR (I could leave the
>> existing ifdef alone, but what about vdso)?
>
> I think mfspr works everywhere we care about but I might be mistaken :-)
> I don't think anybody have tried booting a 403 in a looooong time. I
> would be surprised if it still worked.

I think I have one buried somewhere in my garage.  I'm not digging it out.

josh
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