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From: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
To: LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/47x: allow kernel to be loaded in higher physical memory
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:48:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E12ACD2.9050305@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110705043657.GF13483@ozlabs.org>

On 07/05/11 10:06, Tony Breeds wrote:
> From: Dave Kleikamp<shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> The 44x code (which is shared by 47x) assumes the available physical memory
> begins at 0x00000000.  This is not necessarily the case in an AMP
> environment.
>
> Support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 476 in order to allow the kernel to be
> loaded into a higher memory range.

I think the code assumes, the kernel is loaded in 256M aligned page. You may
want to mention that in the description here.

Thanks
Suzuki

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-05  4:36 [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/47x: allow kernel to be loaded in higher physical memory Tony Breeds
2011-07-05  4:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/44x: don't use tlbivax on AMP systems Tony Breeds
2011-07-13  5:48   ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-13  5:57     ` Tony Breeds
2011-07-05  4:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/44x: boot wrapper: allow kernel to load into non-zero address Tony Breeds
2011-07-05  6:18 ` Suzuki Poulose [this message]
2011-07-12 13:27   ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/47x: allow kernel to be loaded in higher physical memory Josh Boyer
2011-07-12 20:22     ` Suzuki Poulose

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