Thread (78 messages) 78 messages, 10 authors, 2007-07-17

Re: [PATCH] powermac: support G5 CPU hotplug

From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2007-05-03 16:49:43

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Isn't it just a GPIO, like on older Macs?  Of course, we
cannot bring a CPU back online after doing that so it's
pretty useless I suppose.
We don't know for sure what the gpio does... wether it does a CPU soft
reset or tickles the SPU to make it do special things that cause us to
branch at 0x100. We do get the CPU back after that though. We use that
to bring them in after boot.
Yeah.  It's probably the SRESET pin, come to think of it.

It doesn't seem logical that this would save more power
than (deep) NAP mode, so forget the whole idea.  Or
someone could measure it if they think it might help
still.


Segher
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