linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] flash failure with CONFIG_RTAS_FLASH=m
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:04:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070104180406.6843ead3@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070104234951.GJ6279@localdomain>

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:49:51 -0600 Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> wrote:

> The problem doesn't happen if CONFIG_RTAS_FLASH=y.
> 
> What's the best way to fix this?  Should rtas_firmware_flash_list be
> defined in some non-modular code and exported?

Makes sense to me.

You could allocate it dynamically really early (i.e. lmb_alloc) since
that's the only allocator that we can give limits to where in the
address range it can allocate. It seems to be overkill in this case
though, it's just a page worth of data.


-Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-04 23:49 [BUG] flash failure with CONFIG_RTAS_FLASH=m Nathan Lynch
2007-01-05  0:04 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-01-08  1:09   ` Michael Ellerman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070104180406.6843ead3@localhost.localdomain \
    --to=olof@lixom.net \
    --cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org \
    --cc=ntl@pobox.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).