From: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de, miltonm@bga.com,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, yanok@emcraft.com
Subject: Re[2]: [PATCH][v2] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:00:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <947420693.20081221230007@emcraft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je4p0x319s.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
=0D=0AHello Andreas,
On Sunday, December 21, 2008 you wrote:
> Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> writes:
>> Because ELF standard supports only page sizes up to 64K, then you should
>> use patched binutils for building applications to be run with the 256KB-
>> page sized kernel. The patch for binutils is rather trivial, and may
>> look as follows:
>>
>> --- binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.orig
>> +++ binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c
>>
>> -#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE 0x10000
>> +#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE 0x40000
> You don't have to patch it, it's enough to pass -zmax-page-size=3D0x40000
> to the linker.
Thanks for pointing this. I guess, the -zmax-page-size option is new=20
to binutils 2.17.50.0.10. Right?
I'll remove the STDBINUTILS config option from this patch then, and=20
correspondingly update the description.
Regards, Yuri
--
Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer
Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-21 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-21 11:46 [PATCH][v2] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE Yuri Tikhonov
2008-12-21 17:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-21 20:00 ` Yuri Tikhonov [this message]
2008-12-21 20:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-21 20:35 ` Re[2]: " Yuri Tikhonov
2008-12-21 20:57 ` Andreas Schwab
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