[RFC PATCH 4/7] powerpc: Let simpleboot function with non zero-based memory maps
From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Date: 2011-06-16 14:14:40
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds
From: John Williams <redacted> It is unnecessarily restrictive to fatal() if there is physical memory at a non-zero base address. Signed-off-by: John Williams <redacted> --- arch/powerpc/boot/simpleboot.c | 5 ----- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/simpleboot.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/simpleboot.c
index 21cd480..910ae05 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/simpleboot.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/simpleboot.c@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ void platform_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4, unsigned long r5, if (size < (*na+*ns) * sizeof(u32)) fatal("cannot get memory range\n"); - /* Only interested in memory based at 0 */ - for (i = 0; i < *na; i++) - if (*reg++ != 0) - fatal("Memory range is not based at address 0\n"); - /* get the memsize and trucate it to under 4G on 32 bit machines */ memsize64 = 0; for (i = 0; i < *ns; i++)
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