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As of Linux 2.6.9.1, the driver is in the kernel as i2c-mpc.c. This version of the driver has been tested on Tsi107 (formerly MPC107), and on MPC8240, MPC8540, and MPC5200 PowerPCs. Thanks to all the testers.

The Tsi106 (formerly MPC106) and Tsi107 (formerly MPC107) PowerPC host bridges both contain a data cache. This note describes why it may be necessary to mark memory as SMP coherent even in a single processor system using these bridges.

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The driver is supplied ready to be inserted into the linuxppc-2.4-devel tree.

The driver has so far been tested on a small number of systems and with a small number of I2C parts. Thanks to Gleb Natapov, Matthew S. McClintock, and others for testing. Further test results are welcome.
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Current PowerPC kernels have a number of flaws in their machine check handling. The first fault is that they raise a SIGSEGV exception if the machine check occurs during user mode code. Many causes of machine check are not directly related to the current process. For example, on some platforms a PCI parity error detected while a PCI bus master writes into memory will cause a machine check. On some platforms a parity error reading data from the L2 cache in order to write it out to memory will cause a machine check.

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