Subject: Re: some questions on new dual 1Gig G4's support?
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 11:27:26 MST
Hi Ben,
> No. It's 2 things. First the NAP must be disabled depending on the
> errata (7450 + L3), but also, neither the 7450 nor the 7455 support
> DOZE, they can only NAP or do nothing. Worst, on the 7455, it's bad
> to set HID0:DOZE as it actually has a different meaning.
Yes, that is the HIGH_BAT_EN (bit 8) of HID0 which I think we should leave
as zero to keep the 7455 compatible with the 7450. I know nothing about
BAT registers or how to take advantage of block sizes up to 4 Gig, and I
also do not know if/how we should handle the 4 extra special purpose
registers (supevisor mode only). Some sample exception handling code uses
these extra SPRG registers to hand;le BAT table exceptions to speed things
up. Someone who actually knows a whole lot more about the best way to use
BATs will have to take a look at all of these extra pieces.
> So let's split the can doze & can nap into 2 different features.
I will do that in cputable.h as you said..
But what about the SLEEP mode my last e-mail mentioned. It is a different
mode from NAP (does no bus snooping) but saves more power.
Thanks,
Kevin
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