From: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:25:42 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710181725.42378.yur@emcraft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192709532.12879.61.camel@pasglop>
On Thursday 18 October 2007 16:12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > I always reserve the right to change my mind. If something makes sense
> > and the code is decent enough then it might very well be acceptable.
> > Requiring a modified binutils makes me a bit nervous though.
>
> From a kernel point of view, I totally don't care about the modified
> binutils to build userspace as long as it's not required to build the
> kernel and that option is not enabled by default (and explicitely
> documented as having that requirement).
>
> If it is necessary for building the kernel, then I'm a bit cooler about
> the whole thing indeed, the max page size needs to be added at least as
> a command line or linker script param so a different build of binutils
> isn't needed.
No, 256K-page-sized kernel is being built using the standard binutils. Modifications
to them are necessary for user-space applications only. And the libraries as well.
--
Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer
Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 13:28 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 [this message]
2007-10-23 14:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-18 13:18 ` Yuri Tikhonov
2007-10-18 13:25 ` Josh Boyer
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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