From: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SILO & Ext4
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:12:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A290B9D.2070200@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4423d670906010333x16cbae69g667a7441be2f140a@mail.gmail.com>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:49:25 -0400
>
>
>> I'm looking at head_32.S and head_64.s to try and figure
>> out what's involved in making sparc32 relocatable but I'm
>> not sure what to look for. Any hints?
>>
>
> You'll have to learn how to load kernel TLB entries for about 4 or 5
> different major TLB/cache types on sun4c, sun4m, and sun4d systems.
>
Couldn't you do this using OBP in a HW independent way?
> This is what you need to do to relocate the kernel into a new location
> then jump to it.
>
>
On sparc32, is the kernel always loaded in the lower 3 MB
of physical memory regardless of the amount of physical
memory and just left there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-05 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 10:33 SILO & Ext4 Alexander Beregalov
2009-06-01 10:33 ` Alexander Beregalov
2009-06-01 10:41 ` David Miller
2009-06-01 10:41 ` David Miller
2009-06-01 13:53 ` Alex Buell
2009-06-01 13:53 ` Alex Buell
2009-06-01 10:43 ` Alex Buell
2009-06-01 10:43 ` Alex Buell
2009-06-03 1:29 ` Robert Reif
2009-06-03 3:33 ` David Miller
2009-06-03 11:22 ` Robert Reif
2009-06-03 22:00 ` David Miller
2009-06-05 2:49 ` Robert Reif
2009-06-05 7:46 ` David Miller
2009-06-05 12:12 ` Robert Reif [this message]
2009-06-06 0:41 ` David Miller
2009-06-08 0:01 ` Mark Fortescue
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2009-09-03 9:54 David Miller
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