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Re: [RFC] [PATCH] powerpc: Add MSR_DE to MSR_KERNEL

by Scott Wood-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On 06/01/2012 04:14 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 09:26 -0400, Bob Cochran wrote:
>> I believe that additional patches are required for CodeWarrior to
>> work
>> properly (e.g., assembly start up).  I think the patches should come
>> from Freescale.  For whatever reason, they include them in their SDK,
>> but haven't submitted them for inclusion in the mainline.
>>
>> As a developer on Freescale Power products, I would like to see
>> Freescale offer up a CodeWarrior patch set, so I don't have to manage
>> the patches myself when working outside the SDK (i.e., on a more
>> recent
>> kernel).
>
> Such patches would have a hard time getting upstream considering that
> codewarrior is a commercial product.

It's not really about CodeWarrior -- it's needed for any external debug
on these chips.

Those chips are commercial products too, BTW. :-)

-Scott

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