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2014-04-23powerpc: No need to use dot symbols when branching to a functionAnton Blanchard
binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address. Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2013-11-22powerpc/8xx: mfspr SPRN_TBRx in lieu of mftb/mftbu is not supportedLEROY Christophe
Commit beb2dc0a7a84be003ce54e98b95d65cc66e6e536 breaks the MPC8xx which seems to not support using mfspr SPRN_TBRx instead of mftb/mftbu despite what is written in the reference manual. This patch reverts to the use of mftb/mftbu when CONFIG_8xx is selected. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2013-08-21powerpc: Convert some mftb/mftbu into mfsprScott Wood
Some CPUs (such as e500v1/v2) don't implement mftb and will take a trap. mfspr should work on everything that has a timebase, and is the preferred instruction according to ISA v2.06. Currently we get away with mftb on 85xx because the assembler converts it to mfspr due to -Wa,-me500. However, that flag has other effects that are undesireable for certain targets (e.g. lwsync is converted to sync), and is hostile to multiplatform kernels. Thus we would like to stop setting it for all e500-family builds. mftb/mftbu instances which are in 85xx code or common code are converted. Instances which will never run on 85xx are left alone. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2006-10-23[POWERPC] Add non-OF serial console supportMark A. Greer
Add serial console support for non-OF systems. There is a generic serial console layer which calls a serial console driver. Included is the serial console driver for the ns16550 class of uarts. Necessary support routines are added as well. Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>