Re: [PATCH 6/7] [v2] tty/powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor byte channel driver

2011-07-02 Thread Tabi Timur-B04825
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Timur Tabi wrote: > The ePAPR embedded hypervisor specification provides an API for "byte > channels", which are serial-like virtual devices for sending and receiving > streams of bytes.  This driver provides Linux kernel support for byte > channels via three disti

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: enable access to HT Host-Bridge on Maple

2011-07-02 Thread Segher Boessenkool
CPC925/CPC945 use special window to access host bridge functionality of u3-ht. Provide a way to access this device. Why? Is anything going to use it? Hmmm. Why not? Because if nothing uses it it is essentially dead code. Initially I stumbled upon the fact that powermac provides such acces

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Fix memory_block_size_bytes() for non-pseries

2011-07-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 12:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > It's certainly not a hard rule - but note that the file in question > (arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c) has a rather > inconsistent comment style, sometimes even within the same function: > > /* > * Remove h

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Fix memory_block_size_bytes() for non-pseries

2011-07-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 14:15 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > +/* WARNING: This is going to override the generic definition whenever > > > + * pseries is built-in regardless of what platform is active at boot > > > + * time. This is fine for now as this is the