From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:41:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460D4BC3.8030805@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175208237.3122.78.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> The old 2.6.16 kernel handled memory statically and it was shown in the
> device tree. The current kernel deals with the hypervisor and hotplugs
> the memory, so we should just ignore anything that's reported in the
> device-tree. This enables the current kernel to be booted from 2.6.16
> without evil hacks in head_64.S to override the device-tree.
The proper way is to parse out just the command line from the incompatible
DT, and use that with the new DT supplied by the bootwrapper. I planed
to do that in my bootwrapper, but haven't coded it yet.
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-29 22:43 [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree David Woodhouse
2007-03-29 23:23 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-30 0:27 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-30 13:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-02 0:20 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-02 17:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-03 2:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-03 3:16 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 14:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 21:18 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-03 21:48 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 22:45 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-03 22:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 23:58 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-04 0:10 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 11:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-04 1:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 1:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 1:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-30 17:41 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2007-03-30 17:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-30 18:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-30 18:13 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-31 15:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-31 22:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-31 22:42 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-06 21:22 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-06 22:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-06 22:43 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-06 23:15 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-06 23:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-06 23:44 ` David Woodhouse
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