Re: [PATCH] Big powermac update

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:09:18AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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 :)

But that's how it starts out... :)  If it turns out that you need to add
more regs in later, can you please move all of the POWER4/GPUL
definitions into their own file?  Thanks.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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