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Anshuman Khandual 4eb2088c07 powerpc/dscr: Add documentation for DSCR support
This patch adds a new documentation file explaining the DSCR support on
powerpc platforms. This explains DSCR related data structure, code paths
and also available user interfaces. Any further functional changes to
the DSCR support in the kernel should definitely update the
documentation here.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-06-07 19:29:27 +10:00
Ian Munsie a9282d01cf cxl: Add documentation for userspace APIs
This documentation gives an overview of the hardware architecture, userspace
APIs via /dev/cxl/afuM.N and the syfs files. It also adds a MAINTAINERS file
entry for cxl.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-10-08 20:16:19 +11:00
Alexander Graf b2677b8dd8 KVM: PPC: Remove 440 support
The 440 target hasn't been properly functioning for a few releases and
before I was the only one who fixes a very serious bug that indicates to
me that nobody used it before either.

Furthermore KVM on 440 is slow to the extent of unusable.

We don't have to carry along completely unused code. Remove 440 and give
us one less thing to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2014-07-28 15:23:15 +02:00
Michael Ellerman 380a0b3535 powerpc: Update the 00-Index in Documentation/powerpc
People have been dropping things in here without updating the index, do
it for them.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-08-27 14:44:27 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 330a1eb777 powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.

EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.

Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-07-01 11:50:10 +10:00
Paul Bolle 933ee7119f powerpc: remove PReP platform
PPC_PREP is marked as BROKEN since v2.6.15. Remove all PReP specific
code now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
2013-04-18 13:03:53 +10:00
Rob Landley a994a85543 Documentation: add devicetree docs index file
The device tree infrastructure is being genericized so its documentation
moved out of the PowerPC directory.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-16 10:47:03 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 94576b22ce powerpc: Remove outdated Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt
Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt is so outdated that it makes sense to just
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-07 14:26:19 +11:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 1b483a6a7b powerpc: Remove remains of /proc/ppc_htab
commit 14cf11af6c ("powerpc: Merge enough to
start building in arch/powerpc.") unwired /proc/ppc_htab, and commit
917f0af9e5 ("powerpc: Remove arch/ppc and
include/asm-ppc") removed the rest of the /proc/ppc_htab support, but there are
still a few references left. Kill them for good.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-07 14:26:19 +11:00
Paul Gortmaker 74deace2f9 Documentation: remove old sbc8260 board specific information
This file contains 8 yr. old board specific information that was for
the now gone ppc implementation, and it pre-dates widespread u-boot
support.  Any of the technical details of the board memory map would be
more appropriately captured in a dts if I revive it as powerpc anyway.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-28 14:24:40 -05:00
Timur Tabi bc556ba940 [POWERPC] QE: Add ability to upload QE firmware
Define the layout of a binary blob that contains a QE firmware and instructions
on how to upload it.  Add function qe_upload_firmware() to parse the blob
and perform the actual upload.  Fully define 'struct rsp' in immap_qe.h to
include the actual RISC Special Registers.  Added description of a new
QE firmware node to booting-without-of.txt.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-01-23 19:34:06 -06:00
Rob Landley 3d198a825a Add entries to Documentation/powerpc
Add two missing entries to Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
Nicolas Kaiser 2c066042ec [PATCH] Documentation/powerpc: index update
Add three files not mentioned in Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX.
Sort alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:53:34 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00