[PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Oct 18 23:25:14 EST 2007


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:18:00 +0400
Yuri Tikhonov <yur at emcraft.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 14:44, you wrote:
> > Sorry, this is against arch/ppc which is bug fix only.  New features
> > should be done against arch/powerpc. 
> 
>  Understood. The situation here is that the boards, which required these
> modifications, have no support in the arch/powerpc branch. So this is 
> why we made this in arch/ppc.

Bit of a dilemma then.  What board exactly?

> > Also, I'd rather see something along the lines of hugetlbfs support instead.
> 
>  Here I agree with Benjamin. Furthermore, IIRC the hugetlb file-system is
> supported for PPC64 architectures only. Here we have PPC32.

Well that needs fixing anyway, but ok.  Also, is the modified binutils
only required for userspace to take advantage here?  Seems so, but I'd
just like to be sure.

josh



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