Humm..we should do something to prevent memory to be allocated above
32mb (actually things can be above 32mb...but they cant be at a large
offset since the PowerPC branch instruction works with offsets not
absolute address).
The thing is I was able to load the modules in P6 by changing the link
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:25:15AM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
> Module memory is allocated by grub_malloc(), but as you can see at
> http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/kern/ieee1275/init.c?revision=1806&root=grub&view=markup
> the GRUB heap capped at 4MB (I don't mean size, I me
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:25 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:48 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >
> > However, it would be nice to have a better explanation why "-mlongcall"
> > is needed. If it's only needed for modules and has significant
> > overhead, we may want to intro
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:48 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> However, it would be nice to have a better explanation why "-mlongcall"
> is needed. If it's only needed for modules and has significant
> overhead, we may want to introduce MODULE_CFLAGS, which would only be
> used for modules.
It absol
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:43 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:48:26PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Index: configure.ac
> > ===
> > --- configure.ac(revision 1893)
> > +++ configure.ac(working copy)
> >
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:48:26PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Index: configure.ac
> ===
> --- configure.ac (revision 1893)
> +++ configure.ac (working copy)
> @@ -291,6 +291,11 @@
>TARGET_CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS -mal
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:18 -0200, Manoel wrote:
> I did this patch to add a gcc flag to the modules compilation. Is that
> the correct place to put this flag?
It's a wrong place. It breaks compilation of i386:
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mlongcall"
This option should added
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:18:05PM -0200, Manoel wrote:
> I did this patch to add a gcc flag to the modules compilation. Is that
> the correct place to put this flag?
>
> Also I would like to know what the command "cursor-on" and "cursor-off"
> do in OLPC firmware (they dont exist in PowerPC firm
sorry, forgot the patch.
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:18 -0200, Manoel wrote:
> I did this patch to add a gcc flag to the modules compilation. Is that
> the correct place to put this flag?
>
> Also I would like to know what the command "cursor-on" and "cursor-off"
> do in OLPC firmware (they dont ex
