From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1175899398.2764.68.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <1175208237.3122.78.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <4616BA1A.3090309@am.sony.com> <1175898852.7407.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1175899398.2764.68.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:35:07 +1000 Message-Id: <1175902508.7407.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 18:43 -0400, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 08:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > A bit yukcy but I suppose it'll do for now ... though this shouldn't > > be kept as a long term approach unless there's some versionning or > > such. You also need to pull the initrd btw. > > I really don't think we should be doing it like that in the kernel > proper. Provide a DT blob in the bootwrapper by all means, but there's > no real need to override the device-tree like that when all we really > need to do is refrain from crashing when there's memory listed in the > device-tree. That's not the only bug of the old device-tree though. > If we're going to avoid hacking kexec userspace tools, we _want_ the RMO > memory listed in the device-tree anyway. But we can fix that up for > ourselves rather than overriding the whole device-tree, surely? >