Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC440 pagetable attributes

Kumar Gala wrote:

On Jun 3, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:

quoted

* With the PPC Book-E Linux implementation, 0-11th LSB of PTE stand 
for memory
* protection-related function. (See PTE structure in 
include/asm-ppc/mmu.h)
* Definition of _PAGE_XXX here stands for above bits. Note that those 
bits
* values are CPU dependent, not architecture.

That's more reasonable, however I would make it say PPC 44x ... instead 
of Book-E, the e500 is also a Book-E processor and if you notice if we 
use a 64-bit PTE we end up using more than the 12 LSBs for PTE flags.

OK, attached is an updated patch.

-Geoff