[PATCH] ppc64: 64K pages support

[Sonny Rao]

On 11/16/05, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 00:08 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 09, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:01 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > > I didn't have any luck on 2.6.14-git12 either.
> > > > > I tried 64k page support on my P570.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here are the console messages:
> > > >
> > > > What distro do you use in userland ? Some older glibc versions have
> a
> > > > bug that cause issues with 64k pages, though it generally happens
> with
> > > > login blowing up, not init ...
> > >
> > > SLES9 (could be SLES9 SP1).
> >
> > Can you double check? rpm -qi glibc | head should be enough.
> > Would be bad if SP2 or SP3 does not work with 64k.
> >
>
> I think I am using SLES9. Planning to update to SP3.


Badari, the problem is with your toolchain..
the binutils in SLES9 is too old (even in SP3)
The issue is that it cannot align something (the zero page I think) to 64kb
.

SLES9 SP3 has "GNU ld version 2.15.90.0.1.1 20040303 (SuSE Linux)"

But I have to use binutils 2.15.94 to make a 64kb kernel boot properly
(I can give you the package offline if you need)

Hope it helps.

Sonny
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