From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from av.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [12.44.186.158]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDDDA679EB for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 04:00:51 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4288DFCB.2080208@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:00:43 -0700 From: "Mark A. Greer" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt References: <1116222720.5095.86.camel@gaston> <7d5cfed0ee1edade8050d2c4da94b3f1@freescale.com> <1116255938.5095.133.camel@gaston> <1116261725.5095.139.camel@gaston> In-Reply-To: <1116261725.5095.139.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, John Reiser Subject: Re: 2GB address space limit on 32-bit PowerPC Macintosh List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >series are by no mean stable. Embedded code has been rather frozen in >the rock, I don't think it's much to ask from the appropriate maintainer >to have a quick look at possibly upgrading their board support as well. > Seems reasonable to me. >And it isn't a difficult change for most 6xx/7xx/7xxx based boards >anyway. > From a quick grep, it looks like apus, gemini, k2, lopec, pplus, prep, and prpmc800 are the offenders in the 6xx/7xx/74xx world. Does anyone even care about the lopec and k2 anymore? > What I'm worried about is that without some "pressure" (like >breaking them), it will simply never be fixed... > Probably true... Mark