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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2006-06-07 12:04:18 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-06-09 13:06:00 +1000
commit133dda1e4f757e036fa838cba6804d0344931c4a (patch)
tree1ca77025cb56fcacaee6f50501642784b568430e /arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
parent33b7497794424181dca87f18e43ecbc07f86bba5 (diff)
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is needed. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index 5f79f01c44f2..3ba87835757e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ static int __init pSeries_probe_hypertas(unsigned long node,
static int __init pSeries_probe(void)
{
+ unsigned long root = of_get_flat_dt_root();
char *dtype = of_get_flat_dt_prop(of_get_flat_dt_root(),
"device_type", NULL);
if (dtype == NULL)
@@ -396,6 +397,13 @@ static int __init pSeries_probe(void)
if (strcmp(dtype, "chrp"))
return 0;
+ /* Cell blades firmware claims to be chrp while it's not. Until this
+ * is fixed, we need to avoid those here.
+ */
+ if (of_flat_dt_is_compatible(root, "IBM,CPBW-1.0") ||
+ of_flat_dt_is_compatible(root, "IBM,CBEA"))
+ return 0;
+
DBG("pSeries detected, looking for LPAR capability...\n");
/* Now try to figure out if we are running on LPAR */