Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 12 authors, 2008-11-27

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

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:
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On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 07:30 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
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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.
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