[PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a
pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware
will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is
needed.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index f393a38..f70bd09 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -1623,6 +1623,15 @@
if (strstr(p, RELOC("Power Macintosh")) ||
strstr(p, RELOC("MacRISC")))
return PLATFORM_POWERMAC;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+ /* We must make sure we don't detect the IBM Cell
+ * blades as pSeries due to some firmware issues,
+ * so we do it here.
+ */
+ if (strstr(p, RELOC("IBM,CBEA")) ||
+ strstr(p, RELOC("IBM,CPBW-1.0")))
+ return PLATFORM_GENERIC;
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
i += sl + 1;
}
}