[PATCH 0/2] Errata workaround updates

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Feb 1 11:26:18 EST 2012


On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Will Deacon wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> After Russell pointed out that we weren't applying an erratum workaround
> in all cases that it was required:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-January/082730.html
> 
> I went back through the documents for PL310 and Cortex-A9 to check that
> what we have in Linux matches the latest workarounds.

Ideally, you should not limit the workaround only to those revisions 
known to be broken but to any revision.  Only when a particular revision 
is known to be fixed then should it be disabled.


Nicolas



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