From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ocean.emcraft.com (ocean.emcraft.com [213.221.7.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5534BDDF6C for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:28:12 +1000 (EST) From: Yuri Tikhonov To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:25:42 +0400 References: <200710181108.19413.yur@emcraft.com> <20071018070139.339e2efb@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> <1192709532.12879.61.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1192709532.12879.61.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <200710181725.42378.yur@emcraft.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thursday 18 October 2007 16:12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I always reserve the right to change my mind. If something makes sense > > and the code is decent enough then it might very well be acceptable. > > Requiring a modified binutils makes me a bit nervous though. > > From a kernel point of view, I totally don't care about the modified > binutils to build userspace as long as it's not required to build the > kernel and that option is not enabled by default (and explicitely > documented as having that requirement). > > If it is necessary for building the kernel, then I'm a bit cooler about > the whole thing indeed, the max page size needs to be added at least as > a command line or linker script param so a different build of binutils > isn't needed. No, 256K-page-sized kernel is being built using the standard binutils. Modifications to them are necessary for user-space applications only. And the libraries as well. -- Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com