From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de•ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: export symbols for page size selection
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:54:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44368B18.4010109@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060407154247.GJ952@pb15.lixom.net>
Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:00:04AM +0200, arnd@arndb•de wrote:
>> > We need access to some symbols in powerpc memory management
>> > from spufs in order to create proper SLB entries.
>>
>> One more reason to disallow modular spufs..
>
> Yeah, what's the need for that, really? It needs to know so much of
> kernel internals that it's getting silly to allow it to be a module.
We never used that feature either...
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-07 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-07 15:01 [PATCH 0/5] cell: recent bug fixes arnd
2006-04-06 22:00 ` [PATCH 1/5] spufs: Disable local interrupts for SPE hash_page calls arnd
2006-04-06 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/5] powerpc: fix 64k pages on non-hypervisor arnd
2006-04-06 22:00 ` [PATCH 3/5] spufs: set up correct SLB entries for 64k pages arnd
2006-04-06 22:00 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: export symbols for page size selection arnd
2006-04-07 15:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-07 15:42 ` Olof Johansson
2006-04-07 15:54 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2006-04-07 16:03 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-07 16:20 ` Olof Johansson
2006-04-07 16:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-11 1:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-06 22:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] cell: enable CPU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE arnd
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