[parisc-linux] bad news, good news, unkown (Temp CR used as permanent storage)

[Frank Rowand]

Philipp Rumpf wrote:

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> > (Of course, the obvious exception is that the Temporary Control
> > Registers are undefined when the kernel's HPMC handler is called.)
> 
> How is that obvious ?  I would have expected the firmware HPMC handler

Ahhh, obvious if one had read the comments at the beginning of the basic
hpmc handler that I submitted.  Or read p. 1-16 of pdce.pdf, "PA-RISC 2.0
Formware Architecture Reference Specification: Processor Dependent Code
(PDC) Procedures (Part 2/2)" at
http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/documentation.html

OK, so it's not so obvious....

-Frank