[PATCH][v2] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

[Andreas Schwab]

Yuri Tikhonov <yur at emcraft.com> writes:

> Because ELF standard supports only page sizes up to 64K, then you should
> use patched binutils for building applications to be run with the 256KB-
> page sized kernel. The patch for binutils is rather trivial, and may
> look as follows:
>
> --- binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.orig
> +++ binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c
>
> -#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x10000
> +#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x40000

You don't have to patch it, it's enough to pass -zmax-page-size=0x40000
to the linker.

Andreas.

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