Subject: Re: [patch 01/18] Cell: Add spu shutdown method

From: André Detsch <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:41:45 -0300

Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 19:59 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Add a shutdown method to spu_sysdev_class to allow proper spu resource
>> cleanup on system shutdown.  This is needed to support kexec on the PS3
>> platform.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> André, does this interact with your kexec work at all?

No. My cell kexec patch is actually crash-specific, activated under 
default_machine_crash_shutdown. Geoff's ps3 kexec patches do not seem to 
affect this code path.

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Andre Detsch