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Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:42:54 +0100
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On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 08:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> In that specific case, I beleive it's fair enough to do the fixup in
> the kernel for a couple of reasons. One is that can be kept fairly
> self contained in the ps3 code (by resetting the LMB available ranges)
> and the other is that not doing so would make the existing bootloader
> unable to boot new kernels, which is annoying.

Almost as annoying as the fact that a _new_ bootloader built with the
current kernel isn't actually able to boot anything at all :)

SLOF, anyone? :)

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dwmw2