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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2005-08-01 07:34:49 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-08-02 04:14:00 +0200
commit57ee67af35183c60e924ebb6d6b3e1d2d9c03366 (patch)
tree05ede7060812b3e07fec1cea199b10e60039aa6a /arch/ppc64
parent[PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches (diff)
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[PATCH] ppc64: Fix CONFIG_ALTIVEC not set
The code that sets the altivec capability of the CPU based on firmware informations can enable altivec when the kernel has CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled. This results in "interesting" crashes. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ppc64')
-rw-r--r--arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
index 47727a6f7346..5aca01ddd81f 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
@@ -916,6 +916,7 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
}
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
/* Check if we have a VMX and eventually update CPU features */
prop = (u32 *)get_flat_dt_prop(node, "ibm,vmx", NULL);
if (prop && (*prop) > 0) {
@@ -929,6 +930,7 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features |= CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
cur_cpu_spec->cpu_user_features |= PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC;
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
/*
* Check for an SMT capable CPU and set the CPU feature. We do