[PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Disable VPHN polling during a suspend operation

2010-10-28 Thread Jesse Larrew
From: Jesse Larrew Tie the polling mechanism into the ibm,suspend-me rtas call to stop/restart polling before/after a suspend, hibernate, migrate, or checkpoint restart operation. This ensures that the system has a chance to disable the polling if the partition is migrated to a system that does n

[PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Poll VPA for topology changes and update NUMA maps

2010-10-28 Thread Jesse Larrew
From: Jesse Larrew This patch sets a timer during boot that will periodically poll the associativity change counters in the VPA. When a change in associativity is detected, it retrieves the new associativity domain information via the H_HOME_NODE_ASSOCIATIVITY hcall and updates the NUMA node m

[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Add VPHN firmware feature

2010-10-28 Thread Jesse Larrew
From: Jesse Larrew This simple patch adds the firmware feature for VPHN to the firmware features bitmask. Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h |3 ++- arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h |3 ++- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c |

[PATCH 0/3][RFC][REPOST] Add Support for Virtual Processor Home Node (VPHN)

2010-10-28 Thread Jesse Larrew
From: Jesse Larrew The SPLPAR option allows the platform to dispatch virtual processors on physical processors that, due to the variable nature of work loads, are temporarily free, thus improving the utilization of computing resources. However, SPLPAR implies inconsistent mapping of virtual to ph

Re: Pegasos OHCI bug (was Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug,

2010-10-28 Thread Segher Boessenkool
>> > Almost all of my devices are under that PCI node. What will I prove by >> > disabling them? >> >> You should put it after "load", and before "go". >> >> It should give you a working system; it's a sledgehammer workaround. > > I can do it a little more gracefully than that. This works to deacti

[PATHC v1] PPC4xx: Adding PCI(E) MSI support

2010-10-28 Thread tmarri
From: Tirumala Marri This patch adds MSI support for 440SPe, 460Ex, 460Sx and 405Ex. Signed-off-by: Tirumala R Marri --- v1: * Get rid of bitmap functions. * Remove irq mapping as each MSI is tied to UIC. * Cleaning up of prints. --- arch/powerpc/boot/dts/canyonlands.dts | 18 +++ arch

Re: Pegasos OHCI bug (was Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug,

2010-10-28 Thread pacman
Segher Boessenkool writes: > > > So is it wrong to leave the host controller enabled when the OS is booted? > > Yes. Or, rather, there should be some way for the client to turn off > all dma and interrupt activity; if the client closes the ihandles in > "/chosen", and perhaps calls "quiesce", th

Re: Pegasos OHCI bug (was Re: PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug,

2010-10-28 Thread Segher Boessenkool
> So is it wrong to leave the host controller enabled when the OS is booted? Yes. Or, rather, there should be some way for the client to turn off all dma and interrupt activity; if the client closes the ihandles in "/chosen", and perhaps calls "quiesce", that should be enough. > If > not, then

Re: PowerMac G5 config

2010-10-28 Thread kevin diggs
Hi, Apparently, for some reason, you can't use -depth in your find command when rebuilding your initrd??? Machine is now running 2.6.36. Glad to be rid of that awful cpufreq driver ... kevin On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM, kevin diggs wrote: > Hi, > > I have a G5 (dual 970FX, june 2004?) run

mpc52xx_gpt breaks on linux-2.6.26

2010-10-28 Thread nello martuscielli
If i try to enable watchdog it breaks linux kernel build when enabled. I'm using an Efika MPC5200B with CRUX PPC 2.6 32bit. CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_MPC5200_WDT=y That's compiling linux-2.6.36: [..] LD arch/powerpc/lib/built-in.o CC arch/powerpc/sysdev/simple_gpio.o CC arc

mpc52xx_gpt breaks on linux-2.6.26

2010-10-28 Thread nello martuscielli
If i try to enable watchdog  it breaks linux kernel build when enabled. I'm using an Efika MPC5200B with CRUX PPC 2.6 32bit. CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_MPC5200_WDT=y That's compiling linux-2.6.36: [..]  LD      arch/powerpc/lib/built-in.o  CC      arch/powerpc/sysdev/simple_gpio.o  CC      arch/p

[PATCH] Add Freescale CodeWarrior debug support for kernel

2010-10-28 Thread Roy Zang
CodeWarrior is popular embedded tools to support debugging Powerpc. This patch adds Freescale CodeWarrior debug support for Linux kernel on 85xx/QorIQ platform. Signed-off-by: Bogdan Adrin Signed-off-by: Roy Zang --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug|8 arch/powerpc/Ma