On 04/05/2013 10:50 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 05 April 2013, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: >> From: Lior Amsalem <al...@marvell.com> >> >> In order to be able to support he LPAE, the internal registers virtual >> base must be aligned to 2MB. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lior Amsalem <al...@marvell.com> >> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clem...@free-electrons.com> > > This is a surprising limitation. Can you extend the above text to go into more > detail where that alignment requirement comes from? >
The explanation I had was that in LPAE section size is 2MB, in earlyprintk we map the internal registers and it must be section aligned. > Arnd > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel > -- Gregory Clement, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
