From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from stat1.steeleye.com ([65.114.3.130]:50343 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264960AbUF1OLa (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:11:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Fw: [SPARC64]: No longer set WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL. From: James Bottomley In-Reply-To: <20040628025222.1d11f71b.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040628025222.1d11f71b.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 28 Jun 2004 09:11:26 -0500 Message-Id: <1088431888.2004.1.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 04:52, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ChangeSet 1.1768.1.1, 2004/06/27 14:20:23-07:00, davem@nuts.davemloft.net > > [SPARC64]: No longer set WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL. > > > That leasve m68k and mips as the only architectures requesting page->virtual. > > Do they really need it? Could we leave this in...I'm planning an extenstion to parisc that requires this. It looks like, in order to accommodate the pa8800 processor which forbids inequivalent cache lines (aliasing) we're going to have to move to a fully virtually mapped kernel (as opposed to the current offset mapped one). James