Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add support for PAGE_SIZEs greater than 4KB for

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:49:13 -0700
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:57 -0700, prodyut hazarika wrote:

quoted

You should mention an example of dedicated cases (eg. RAID).
I think this help should mention that for page size 256KB, you will
need to have a special version of binutils, since the ELF standard
mentions page sizes only upto 64KB.

He should also put a BIG FAT warning with 256K pages. Those will -not-
work with most existing userspace. The maximum page size supported by
the current userspace ABI is 64K as this is the alignment requirement of
our toolchain for the various program sections.

I think that's been noted like 5 times now :)

josh