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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [POWERPC] 4xx: Add 405EXr to cputable
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:25:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478CFA96.90009@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080115183240.GC25749@lixom.net>

Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:19:24PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:09:15AM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>> This patch adds the 405EXr to the powerpc cuptable. Basically the 405EXr
>>> is a 405EX with only one EMAC and only one PCIe interface.
>> Sounds like they have the same core... why do they need separate cputable
>> entries?
> 
> AMCC has always indicated SoC products by new PVRs. This isn't news,
> even though it isn't exactly a clean solution. :)

But the old 405EX entry would have matched both chips.  Why add a new 
significant bit to pvr_mask?  For the name in /proc/cpuinfo?

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-15 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-15  7:09 [PATCH 1/2] [POWERPC] 4xx: Add 405EXr to cputable Stefan Roese
2008-01-15 18:19 ` Scott Wood
2008-01-15 18:32   ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-15 18:25     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-01-15 18:38       ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-15 18:47         ` Josh Boyer

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