RE: [patch 1/2] powerpc: Sky CPU: redundant or incorrect tests on unsigned

We don't plan on carrying it forward, so I assume that ripping it out will not affect us. Anything new would be completely new development. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:b...@kernel.crashing.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:01 PM To: support Cc: a...@l

Re: [patch 2/2] kbuild: move -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm to powerpc only

On 4.2.2010 00:22, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:40 -0800, a...@linux-foundation.org wrote: >> From: Andi Kleen >> >> Better dwarf2 unwind information is a good thing, it allows better >> debugging with kgdb and crash and helps systemtap. >> >> Commit 003086497f07f7f1e67

resurrecting the mvme5100 ppc platform

Hello, I'm just started working on some mvme5100 boards, and so I discovered that support for these cards has been dropped with linux-2.6.27 due to lack of interest. Here is the relevent post on linuxppc-embedded: http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-embed...@ozlabs.org/msg30049.html Well, I'd re

[PATCH] powerpc: fix ioremap_flags() with book3e pte definition

We can't just clear the user read permission in book3e pte, because that will also clear supervisor read permission. This surely isn't desired. Fix the problem by adding the supervisor read back. Signed-off-by: Li Yang --- arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c |5 + 1 files changed, 5 insertion

Re: [PATCH] net: emaclite: adding MDIO and phy lib support

Hi John and Sadanand. Looks like a good patch, but a few issues to resolve. Comments below. g. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:49 PM, John Linn wrote: > These changes add MDIO and phy lib support to the driver as the > IP core now supports the MDIO bus. > > The MDIO bus and phy are added as a child t

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] USB: add HCD_BOUNCE_BUFFERS host controller driver flag

Hi Alan, Alan Stern wrote: > This description sounds hopelessly confused. Maybe you're just > misusing the term "coherent". The patch itself doesn't affect the > coherent DMA mappings anyway; it affects the streaming mappings. Or to > put it another way, what's the justification for replacing a

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] USB: add HCD_BOUNCE_BUFFERS host controller driver flag

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Albert Herranz wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Alan Stern wrote: > > This description sounds hopelessly confused. Maybe you're just > > misusing the term "coherent". The patch itself doesn't affect the > > coherent DMA mappings anyway; it affects the streaming mappings. Or to > > put

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

Hi Roman: Am 03.02.10 07:16 schrieb(en) Roman Fietze: Sorry for the delay ... your mail got stuck in a Notes "spam filter". Never mind. I didn't know yet that I'm *such* a nasty guy... ;-) Are you using MWDMA2 with the compact flash cards? What is the load on the different (DMA) channels?