From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52C0DDDEF5 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:13:06 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change the default link address for pSeries zImage kernels. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Tony Breeds In-Reply-To: <20080425053941.GT20457@bakeyournoodle.com> References: <20080425053941.GT20457@bakeyournoodle.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:12:50 +1000 Message-Id: <1209103970.9060.226.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: LinuxPPC-dev , Paul Mackerras Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 15:39 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: > Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries. > In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to > overlapping with OF). Move .text in a pSeries zImage from 4MB to 64MB > (well past OF). > > Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds > --- > - Compile tested for *_defconfig with only pSeries chaning it's link > address. > - Boot tested on POWER6 Considering how bad OF can be on some machines, I'd like this to be boot-tested on a wider range of machines. Also, it might depend on the OF real-base setting as well... At least, we should be able to test at ozlabs on cell blades, POWER4 bare metal (ie "SMP mode"), POWER5 and POWER5+. Cheers, Ben.