From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, paulus@samba.org,
        anton@samba.org, nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/le: enable RTAS events support
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Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> The current kernel code assumes big endian and parses RTAS events all
> wrong. The most visible effect is that we cannot honor EPOW events,
> meaning, for example, we cannot shut down a guest properly from the
> hypervisor.
>
> This new patch is largely inspired by Nathan's work: we get rid of all
> the bit fields in the RTAS event structures (even the unused ones, for
> consistency). We also introduce endian safe accessors for the fields used
> by the kernel (trivial rtas_error_type() accessor added for consistency).
>
> Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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