Subject: Re: Support for new Dual G4 1 Gig machines?
benh@kernel.crashing.org
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 12:09:40 MST
>The 7455 uses bit 8 for HIGH_BAT_EN. On the 7400/7410, bit 8 is DOZE
>Enable and on the 7450 it is ignored. So, code ported from the 7400
>which happens to set bit 8 will work fine on the 7450 but cause great
>grief on the 7455. Random translations whose side effects don't get
>detected until much later tend to make system debug difficult...
If I didn't fuck it up too much, the latest kernels will not set
the DOZE bit on those CPUs if they have a proper cputable entry
(basically copy the 7450 one).
Ben.
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