[PATCH] powerpc: add support for PAGE_SIZEs greater than 4KB for

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Sep 12 06:09:06 EST 2008


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:15:07PM +0400, Yuri Tikhonov wrote:
>> I think this help should mention that for page size 256KB, you will
>> need to have a special version of binutils, since the ELF standard
>> mentions page sizes only upto 64KB.
>
> Right. We use ELDK-4.2 for compiling applications to be run on 256K
>PAGE_SIZE kernel. This toolchain includes necessary changes for
>ELF_MAXPAGESIZE in binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.

Ok, but not everyone does.  And I think setting the page size to this
should be harder, maybe even dependent upon CONFIG_BROKEN.

I need to look over the patch a bit more, but some of the comments you've
already gotten seem valid.

josh



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