[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] sparc64 add cpuid to cpu node

[Igor Kovalenko]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/7/08, Igor Kovalenko <igor.v.kovalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > On 9/27/08, Igor Kovalenko <igor.v.kovalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >> Hi!
>>  >>
>>  >>  Linux kernel expects at least "cpuid" property in cpu device node, or
>>  >>  it halts execution. This patch adds one with dummy "1" value. This
>>  >>  allows to make some progress into booting the kernel.
>>  >>
>>  >>  Please apply.
>>  >
>>  > Thanks, applied. The real implementation would be to probe the real ID
>>  > from various registers but as we don't have SMP yet this is sufficient
>>  > for now.
>>  >
>>
>>
>> Small correction: cpuid property of qemu cpu should be "0" for the
>>  linux kernel to boot on qemu. This is because kernel is reading cpu
>>  registers to find out current smp processor ID and it happens to find
>>  out "0" cpuid because corresponding register is zeroed by qemu.
>>  Currently kernel fails since there is no "0" cpu node in tree.
>>
>>  Please apply the following patch: openbios-sparc64-cpuid.patch
>
> Thanks. I did not see any difference, but applied anyway.

What are you using to test it?

Here with gentoo-sparc64 minimal install iso it still traps before
something useful is printed - my local experiment with debugging
kernel output hangs while processing first or second periodic timer
tick. It successfully reports clocksource and clockevent multiplier
and shift.

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Kind regards,
Igor V. Kovalenko