From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:44:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192704248.13993.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710181108.19413.yur@emcraft.com>
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 11:08 +0400, Yuri Tikhonov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following patch adds support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x-based boards.
> The applications to be run on the kernel with 256KB PAGE_SIZE have to be
> built using the modified version of binutils, where the MAXPAGESIZE
> definition is set to 0x40000 (as opposite to standard 0x10000).
Sorry, this is against arch/ppc which is bug fix only. New features
should be done against arch/powerpc. Also, I'd rather see something
along the lines of hugetlbfs support instead.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 7:08 [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 10:44 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-10-18 11:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 12:01 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-18 12:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 13:25 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-23 14:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-18 13:18 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 13:25 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-18 13:30 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 14:41 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-18 23:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-19 13:24 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-22 16:12 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-23 13:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-23 23:08 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-23 23:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-19 15:37 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-19 15:48 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-19 16:03 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-19 16:36 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-19 19:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-18 11:00 Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 11:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 13:20 ` Yuri Tikhonov
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