From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:25:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018082514.2ce1f43b@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710181718.00965.yur@emcraft.com>
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:18:00 +0400
Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 14:44, you wrote:
> > Sorry, this is against arch/ppc which is bug fix only. New features
> > should be done against arch/powerpc.
>
> Understood. The situation here is that the boards, which required these
> modifications, have no support in the arch/powerpc branch. So this is
> why we made this in arch/ppc.
Bit of a dilemma then. What board exactly?
> > Also, I'd rather see something along the lines of hugetlbfs support instead.
>
> Here I agree with Benjamin. Furthermore, IIRC the hugetlb file-system is
> supported for PPC64 architectures only. Here we have PPC32.
Well that needs fixing anyway, but ok. Also, is the modified binutils
only required for userspace to take advantage here? Seems so, but I'd
just like to be sure.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 7:08 [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 10:44 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-18 11:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 12:01 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-18 12:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 13:25 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-23 14:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-18 13:18 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 13:25 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-10-18 13:30 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 14:41 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-18 23:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-19 13:24 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-22 16:12 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-23 13:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-23 23:08 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-23 23:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-19 15:37 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-19 15:48 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-19 16:03 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-19 16:36 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-19 19:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-18 11:00 Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 11:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 13:20 ` Yuri Tikhonov
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