> > > If I'm understanding this right, the first solution should be something
> > > along the lines of the patch below (not tested), which even removes
> > > more lines than it adds. It doesn't seem that annoying to me, and it
> > > makes sense to assume that the fw_features are set up after return
On Thursday 12 July 2007, Michael Neuling wrote:
>
> > If I'm understanding this right, the first solution should be something
> > along the lines of the patch below (not tested), which even removes
> > more lines than it adds. It doesn't seem that annoying to me, and it
> > makes sense to assume
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > There are two possibly solutions I see in the long run:
> > =
>
> > =A0- We could set the FW features earlier on pseries, though that is a bit
> > annoying because that means doing it before
>> d) preload some SLB entries at very early boot to cover
>> the first 4GB or so.
>>
>> d) sounds nice and simple, but will it work?
>
> Nah, best to limit everything at boot to SLB 0. Thing is, 4G is not
> enough, you may have more RAM and have allocations from the top.
Yeah fair enough. Yo
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> There are two possibly solutions I see in the long run:
>
> - We could set the FW features earlier on pseries, though that is a bit
> annoying because that means doing it before the device-tree is
> unflattened.
>
> - We could constrain
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 13:06 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > There are two possibly solutions I see in the long run:
> >
> > - We could set the FW features earlier on pseries, though that is
> > a bit
> > annoying because that means doing it before the device-tree is
> > unflattened.
> >
> >
> There are two possibly solutions I see in the long run:
>
> - We could set the FW features earlier on pseries, though that is
> a bit
> annoying because that means doing it before the device-tree is
> unflattened.
>
> - We could constraint lmb_alloc to the first segment until the FW
> fixup
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:00 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> On pSeries the firmware features are not setup until ppc_md.init_early,
> so we can't do the firmware feature sections fixups till after this.
>
> Currently firmware feature sections is only used on iSeries which inits
> the firmware feat
