[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] PPC 85xx: Detect e500v2 / e500mc during runtime

[Scott Wood]

On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 16:19 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> With the qemu-ppce500 machine type we can run the same board with
> either an e500v2 or an e500mc core plugged in.
> 
> This means that the IVOR setup can't be based on compile time decisions,
> so instead we have to do a runtime check which CPU generation we're
> running on.

Is this really the only place where you ran into this?

Also consider that you'll be adding extra size, and some of our 85xx
targets are pretty close to the limit as is (though at least this code
isn't used in SPLs).

I guess nobody ever bothered to set IVORs for e6500-specific exceptions.

For that matter, I don't see why we need this code at all.  These aren't
the addresses that U-Boot keeps its exception vectors at; it's setting
them up for the OS, apparently trying to imitate some other type of
book3e chip that has fixed ivors.  Apparently U-Boot has done this only
since 2009 (commit 26f4cdba6b51deab4ec99d60be381244068ef950), so it's
not even something that an OS could depend on (and certainly Linux
doesn't).  So I don't see the point.

-Scott