Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] PPC: KVM: Fix BAT put

[Alexander Graf]

On 05.10.2012, at 05:29, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:36:46AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> In the sregs API, upper and lower 32bit segments of the BAT registers
>> are swapped when doing a set. Since we need to support old kernels out
>> there, don't bother to fix it in the kernel, but instead work around
>> the problem in QEMU by swapping on put.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
> 
> We should probably at least add warning comments to the kernel
> headers.

I would prefer to switch all of the sregs mess to one_reg and declare it 
deprecated then :).

Alex

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