Re: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN limited to 4M?

Rene Herman
2007-01-03T15:44:47Z

Vivek Goyal wrote:

> Rencetly I have restored back CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option. That patch
> is still in -mm. IMHO, your case will fit more if we set
> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START to 16M rather than increasing alignment upper limit
> for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN.
>
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc2/2.6.20-rc2-mm1/broken-out/i386-restore-config_physical_start-option.patch

I agree. That matches the want better.

> Andrew, Can you please push this patch to 2.6.20-rc3?

No objections from me and it merely restores 2.6.19 functionality but
also no great rush as far as I'm concerned. Can live with applying it
manually for a release. See Xen was the original restoration reason;
maybe they really want it in 2.6.20...

Thanks,
Rene