From: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@in•ibm.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/47x: allow kernel to be loaded in higher physical memory
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:52:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1CAD21.5050803@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA6d9=PfsFbbFKyNSu6a+pUd0=ZBFVXzUYAYmg3hd5poXQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/12/11 18:57, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Suzuki Poulose<suzuki@in•ibm.com> wrote:
>> On 07/05/11 10:06, Tony Breeds wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Dave Kleikamp<shaggy@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> The 44x code (which is shared by 47x) assumes the available physical
>>> memory
>>> begins at 0x00000000. This is not necessarily the case in an AMP
>>> environment.
>>>
>>> Support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 476 in order to allow the kernel to be
>>> loaded into a higher memory range.
>>
>> I think the code assumes, the kernel is loaded in 256M aligned page. You may
>> want to mention that in the description here.
>
> Suzie, do you have any other concerns with this code in regards to
> your kexec/kdump work for 4xx? It seems fairly self-contained to me,
> so I'd like to apply it but I want to make sure it is not going to
> majorly conflict with the work you're doing.
Please go ahead.
Thanks
Suzuki
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 4:36 [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/47x: allow kernel to be loaded in higher physical memory Tony Breeds
2011-07-05 4:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/44x: don't use tlbivax on AMP systems Tony Breeds
2011-07-13 5:48 ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-13 5:57 ` Tony Breeds
2011-07-05 4:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/44x: boot wrapper: allow kernel to load into non-zero address Tony Breeds
2011-07-05 6:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/47x: allow kernel to be loaded in higher physical memory Suzuki Poulose
2011-07-12 13:27 ` Josh Boyer
2011-07-12 20:22 ` Suzuki Poulose [this message]
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