Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965190AbbKCXyw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:54:52 -0500 Received: from belmont79srvr.owm.bell.net ([184.150.200.79]:19399 "EHLO mtlfep01.bell.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965139AbbKCXys (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:54:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] parisc architecture updates for v4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: John David Anglin In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:40:53 -0500 Cc: Helge Deller , David Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Parisc List , James Bottomley , Network Development Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0F1C5469-5397-4F1A-AF17-CC7D3112A436@bell.net> References: <20151025114934.GA11108@ls3530.box> <56393D46.6060903@gmx.de> To: Linus Torvalds X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Opwv-CommTouchExtSvcRefID: str=0001.0A020203.56394606.001B,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 778 Lines: 24 On 2015-11-03, at 6:25 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But if it's actually possible that the pa-risc L1 line size is really > just 16 bytes, I guess that objection to the patch goes away. My > automatic reaction was "that's not real, it's some odd workaround", > but if it is actually real... See page 10 in this document: https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/images-parisc/e/e9/PA-8700wp.pdf It shows the PA-8700 L1 design. James' comments and this paper are the basis for this change. Dave -- John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/