From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com (e1.ny.us.ibm.com [32.97.182.141]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e1.ny.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F45BDDE45 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:59:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9IAwqU0025874 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:58:52 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.5) with ESMTP id l9IAwqbC064294 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:58:52 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l9IAwkmg013778 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:58:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE From: Josh Boyer To: Yuri Tikhonov In-Reply-To: <200710181108.19413.yur@emcraft.com> References: <200710181108.19413.yur@emcraft.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:44:08 -0500 Message-Id: <1192704248.13993.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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