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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: page size change on MIPS
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:13:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3DCF4A.1020509@paralogos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3DCB5A.6060107@caviumnetworks.com>

On 01/24/11 10:56, David Daney wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 07:02 AM, naveen yadav wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> we are using mips32r2  so I want to know which all pages size it can 
>> support?
>> When I modify arch/mips/Kconfig.  it boot sucessfully on 16KB page
>> size. but hang/not boot crash when change page size to 8KB,32KB and 64
>> KB.
>
> I don't think 8KB and 32KB work on most mips32r2 processors.  You 
> would have to check the processor manual to be sure.

In principle, one should be able to detect this at run-time, by writing 
a sequence of values into the PageMask register and seeing which masks 
'stick'.

/K.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-24 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-24 15:02 page size change on MIPS naveen yadav
2011-01-24 18:56 ` David Daney
2011-01-24 19:13   ` Kevin D. Kissell [this message]
2011-01-27 14:55   ` naveen yadav
2011-01-27 15:18     ` adnan iqbal
2011-01-27 17:44       ` David Daney
2011-01-28  9:18         ` naveen yadav
2011-01-28 18:48           ` David Daney
2011-01-30 15:02   ` Himanshu Aggarwal
2011-01-31 13:08     ` Ralf Baechle
2011-02-04  3:24       ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04  4:16         ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 17:25           ` David Daney

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