Re: [PATCH] Big powermac update

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun Jan 25 2004 - 19:14:04 EST


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 05:55, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:58:33AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >
> > >
> > > Can you please put the 970 register definitions into
> > > include/asm-ppc/reg_970.h or something along those lines?
> >
> > I won't create a file for 3 registers :) Also, HID2/3 are defined
> > on other CPUs, as HIOR, none of these are strictly 970 specific
> > in fact though we only use them on it (coment may need fixing, bu
> > that's ok at this point).
>
> Are they found on regular, classic PPCs or just on others in the
> 64bit family? The problem is we don't want to let <asm/reg.h> get to be
> as bad as it used to be.

HID2 exist on some 750FX afaik, HID3 and upper probably only on
POWER4/GPUL at this point and HIOR is specific to HV capable CPUs,
but then, afgain, it's only 3 registers :)

Ben.


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