Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add 16K/64K pages support for the 44x PPC32 architectures.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2008-11-02 21:33:37
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2008-11-02 21:33:37
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 08:41 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 08:55:02AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:quoted
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 07:30 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:quoted
That is on purpose. The chip has an errata that causes badness if you use the last XX bytes of DRAM. I forget exactly what XX is, but we just remove the last page.Doing that from the device-tree is very hairy tho... you end up with informations in there that aren't aligned etc... oh well.What? -ENOTVERBOSEENOUGH. I don't see how this is really different from U-Boot just passing in a smaller memory size in the old arch/ppc world. (And I think U-Boot will actually fixup the device tree in a similar manner itself these days.) So if there are problems with this, please do tell.
Is it cropping the memory nodes or using the reserve map ? Ben.