AW: Re: __setup_cpu_be problem

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Feb 15 08:27:46 EST 2006


On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:22:09AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Well, I'll have to look more closely at the initialisation then. The
> kernel currently assume that non-legacy page sizes (that is something
> other than 4k and 16M) are completely described at boot by the
> device-tree, and that would imply HID6 has already been setup.

Isn't this something that should be configured in the hypervisor /
partition firmware on the machine then, instead of hacked into the
kernel? The hypervisor would of course switch HID contents when
dispatching different partitions, if needed.


-Olof



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