Re: [PATCH x86 for review II] [13/39] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN limited to 4M?

Rene Herman
2007-02-13T06:37:13Z

On 02/12/2007 08:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:

> From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>

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> --- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
> +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
> @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ config RELOCATABLE
> config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
> hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
> default "0x100000"
> - range 0x2000 0x400000
> + range 0x2000 0x1000000
> help
> This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
> where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an

Okay I guess, but in reply to this, Vivek Goyal pointed out a patch of
his restoring CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START that was already in -mm instead
since it seems Xen also wanted it. That does also match what I wanted it
for better:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/376

Rene.