[PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Oct 18 20:44:08 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 11:08 +0400, Yuri Tikhonov wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>  The following patch adds support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x-based boards. 
> The applications to be run on the kernel with 256KB PAGE_SIZE have to be 
> built using the modified version of binutils, where the MAXPAGESIZE 
> definition is set to 0x40000 (as opposite to standard 0x10000).

Sorry, this is against arch/ppc which is bug fix only.  New features
should be done against arch/powerpc.  Also, I'd rather see something
along the lines of hugetlbfs support instead.

josh




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