On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 15:26 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 10:34 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > Really nice series. I'd prefer we simply got rid of the endianness > > flag > > entirely but this is a good step. > > > > Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]> > > Are you going to merge this ? > > Afaik (Alexey just told me), pretty much anything IO is broken for > powerpc upstream and has been for weeks now ! It looks like the only > thing that got reverted was the VGA problem but everything else is still > busted including virtio. > > Why hasn't the original breakage been reverted immediately instead ?
It's actually worse than I thought. Alexey is showing me that in fact, even PCI MMIO is busted, using EHCI causes qemu to segfault for example. This is a complete trainwreck. Why was that junk merged in the first place and why wasn't it immediately reverted ? Ben.
