[PATCH] MachineCheck exception broken for MPC 8xx CPU's

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:17:19PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> > Joakim Tjernlund writes:
> >
> > > The Machine Check exception handler is broken on MPC 8xx CPU's
> > > This patch should fix it.
> > > Tom Rini asked me to send it to you.
> >
> > Hmmm, this doesn't look like it will apply.  The patch looks to be
> > against linuxppc-2.5, not Andrew's/Linus' tree.
> >
> > In fact I don't think there is a great deal of point in applying this
> > patch until we update arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S with all the other
> > changes we have in the linuxppc-2.5 tree.
>
> Aside from one less thing to pull out and push ahead?  I was hoping to
> avoid exactly that if possible. :)

Well, since the stock kernel is broken for 8xx I don't think that is going to work.
You need to push the 8xx changes in linuxppc-2.5 to akpm and then it will
be possible/meaningful to generate patches against the stock kernel.

 Jocke

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