[PATCH] do firmware feature fixups after features are initialised

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 11 21:41:24 EST 2007


>> d) preload some SLB entries at very early boot to cover
>>     the first 4GB or so.
>>
>> d) sounds nice and simple, but will it work?
>
> Nah, best to limit everything at boot to SLB 0. Thing is, 4G is not
> enough, you may have more RAM and have allocations from the top.

Yeah fair enough.  You could of course preload the stuff at
the top then, but that could quickly become a nasty hack, too.


Segher




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