[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] ppc: fix mtmsr for SF setting
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jun 17 00:56:30 CEST 2011
>>> mfmsr r1 ; /* unset MSR_SF */ \
>>> clrlwi r1,r1,0 ; \
>>> - mtmsr r1 ; \
>>> + mtmsrd r1 ; \
>>
>> clrlwi 1,1,0 is rlwinm 1,1,0,0,31 which clears all the top 32
>> bits, not
>> only MSR[SF]. Importantly it clears MSR[HV], which you do not want.
>> Use
>> rldicl instead?
>
> Now that we actually detect if we're on a 64-bit CPU, we can indeed be
> a bit more clever about it. However, I don't think any of the upper 32
> bits are important to us, no?
You set MSR[HV]=0. That will cause trouble: many mtspr's are then
treated as
a noop, for example. And if you have an RMO, things break. Etc.
Trouble :-)
>> lis x,0x8000 ; add. x,x,x ; beq ohai_we_are_32bit
>
> lis x,0x8000 would result in 0xffffffff80000000 or 0x80000000 in x
> respectively. add. compares the full register with 0, so we also get
> to analyze the shifted out 8. Very nice trick indeed and exactly what
> I was searching for! Thanks a lot!
add. sets CR0 based on the low 32 bits of the result, in 32-bit mode.
64-bit
CPUs always load 0xffffffff80000000 for lis x,0x8000, no matter what
mode the
CPU is in.
Segher
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