From: Jayachandran C. <jchandra@broadcom.com>
To: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Mapped kernel support for Broadcom XLP
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 21:35:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509160508.GA14124@jayachandranc.netlogicmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399649304-25856-1-git-send-email-jchandra@broadcom.com>
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 08:58:20PM +0530, Jayachandran C wrote:
> This patchset adds support for loading a XLR/XLP kernel compiled with a
> CKSEG2 load address.
>
> The changes are to:
> - move the existing MAPPED_KERNEL option from sgi-ip27 to common config
> - Add a plat_mem_fixup function to arch_mem_init which will allow
> the platform to calculate the kernel wired TLB entries and save
> them so that all the CPUs can set them up at boot.
> - Update PAGE_OFFSET, MAP_BASE and MODULE_START when mapped kernel
> is enabled.
> - Update compressed kernel code to generate the final executable in
> KSEG0 and map the load address of the embedded kernel before loading
> it.
> - Use wired entries of sizes 256M/1G/4G to map the available memory on
> XLP9xx and XLP2xx
>
> Comments and suggestions welcome.
Looks like I missed a patch while sending this out. Will send the full
patchset again (and fix it up in patchwork).
JC.
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From: Jayachandran C. <jchandra@broadcom.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Mapped kernel support for Broadcom XLP
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 21:35:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509160508.GA14124@jayachandranc.netlogicmicro.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20140509160509.bEerQZ2T14E-qwbkeDZjJG7ZR6sxY_-yZXb1I7DLAg0@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399649304-25856-1-git-send-email-jchandra@broadcom.com>
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 08:58:20PM +0530, Jayachandran C wrote:
> This patchset adds support for loading a XLR/XLP kernel compiled with a
> CKSEG2 load address.
>
> The changes are to:
> - move the existing MAPPED_KERNEL option from sgi-ip27 to common config
> - Add a plat_mem_fixup function to arch_mem_init which will allow
> the platform to calculate the kernel wired TLB entries and save
> them so that all the CPUs can set them up at boot.
> - Update PAGE_OFFSET, MAP_BASE and MODULE_START when mapped kernel
> is enabled.
> - Update compressed kernel code to generate the final executable in
> KSEG0 and map the load address of the embedded kernel before loading
> it.
> - Use wired entries of sizes 256M/1G/4G to map the available memory on
> XLP9xx and XLP2xx
>
> Comments and suggestions welcome.
Looks like I missed a patch while sending this out. Will send the full
patchset again (and fix it up in patchwork).
JC.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 15:28 [PATCH RFC 0/5] Mapped kernel support for Broadcom XLP Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: Add platform function to fixup memory Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] MIPS: Netlogic: Mapped kernel support Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] MIPS: Compress MAPPED kernels Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: Netlogic: Map kernel with 1G/4G pages on XLPII Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 15:28 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:05 ` Jayachandran C. [this message]
2014-05-09 16:05 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] Mapped kernel support for Broadcom XLP Jayachandran C.
2014-05-09 16:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] MIPS: Make MAPPED_KERNEL config option common Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] MIPS: Add platform function to fixup memory Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] MIPS: Netlogic: Mapped kernel support Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] MIPS: Compress MAPPED kernels Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] MIPS: Netlogic: Map kernel with 1G/4G pages on XLPII Jayachandran C
2014-05-09 16:09 ` Jayachandran C
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