From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: michael@ellerman.id.au
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
cbe-oss-dev <cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:16:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175570169.30552.3.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175568133.16182.15.camel@concordia.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 12:42 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> My point was it's not coming out of the device tree, it's just
> manually lmb_add'ed.
>
> > My question remains: shouldn't Linux get that
> > information from the device tree, instead? The
> > bootwrapper or bootloader can put it there.
>
> Yes it _should_, but it doesn't.
It _used_ to. The 2.6.16 kernel just used the memory listed in the
device tree. That's _why_ we need this hack -- because when we boot from
2.6.16 with the memory listed in the device tree, it ends up getting
registered twice by the new kernel.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-03 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-29 22:43 [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree David Woodhouse
2007-03-29 23:23 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-30 0:27 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-30 13:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-02 0:20 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-02 17:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-03 2:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-03 3:16 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-04-03 14:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 21:18 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-03 21:48 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 22:45 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-03 22:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 23:58 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-04 0:10 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 11:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-04 1:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 1:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 1:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-30 17:41 ` Geoff Levand
2007-03-30 17:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-30 18:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-30 18:13 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-31 15:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-31 22:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-31 22:42 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-06 21:22 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-06 22:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-06 22:43 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-06 23:15 ` Geoff Levand
2007-04-06 23:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-06 23:44 ` David Woodhouse
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