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Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:47:45 +1000
From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: powerpc: Remove use of 4level-fixup.h for ppc32
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:35:27PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> For 32-bit systems, powerpc still relies on the 4level-fixup.h hack,
> to pretend that the generic pagetable handling stuff is 3-levels
> rather than 4.  This patch removes this, instead using the newer
> pgtable-nopmd.h to handle the elision of both the pud and pmd
> pagetable levels (ppc32 pagetables are actually 2 levels).
> 
> This removes a little extraneous code, and makes it more easily
> compared to the 64-bit pagetable code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Urg.. forgot to mention.  This patch is dependent (textually, not
conceptually) on my earlier patch abolishing PTE_FMT.

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