Re: [Linaro-uefi] kernel memory allocation issue with uefi

2015-01-05 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 06:11:02PM +0530, varadgau...@gmail.com wrote: > I get the following error while loading the LEG-UEFI kernel [1] on a > BeagleBone Black (omap2plus_defconfig + efi stub support) when the kernel > requests memory from UEFI.: > > Shell> zImage > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kern

Re: issue compiling topic-leg-uefi kernel with UEFI-stub

2014-12-11 Thread Leif Lindholm
On 11 December 2014 at 17:42, Varad Gautam wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2014 09:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Thursday 11 December 2014 19:27:03 Varad Gautam wrote: >>> I'm getting >>> >>> arch/arm/kernel/efi_phys.S: Assembler messages: >>> arch/arm/kernel/efi_phys.S:42: Error: selected pr

Re: 答复: why is the the smp_mb() in arm64's barrier.h "dmb ish"?

2014-05-01 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:49:44PM +0800, kelvin...@via-alliance.com wrote: > Another questions: > > In Arm V8 Architecture Reference Manual,there is an example (see beblow) to > explain the shareability attribute of clusters. It is easy to know: each > cluster is corresponding to a Inner sharea

Re: 答复: why is the the smp_mb() in arm64's barrier.h "dmb ish"?

2014-05-01 Thread Leif Lindholm
Hi Kelvin, On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:08:14PM +0800, kelvin...@via-alliance.com wrote: > Why do the smp_mb()/smp_rmb()/smp_wmb() for arm (arm-32) not change to the > "dmb ishxx" too? But they do. For ARMv7, smb_mb(), smp_rmb() and smp_wmb() become dmb ish, dmb ish and dmb ishst respectively. Th

Re: why is the the smp_mb() in arm64's barrier.h "dmb ish"?

2014-04-30 Thread Leif Lindholm
Hi Kelvin. On 30 April 2014 10:52, wrote: > In arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h, there is the definition of > smp_mb()/smp_rmb()/smp_wmb() for arm64. I noticed that all the 3 macors are > using “dmb ishxx”, which is only affect the cluster of the CPU executing the > instruction. This is incorre

Re: [GSoC-2014] Introducing Myself

2014-03-21 Thread Leif Lindholm
t 7:15 PM, Grant Likely > wrote: > > Hi Varad, > > > > Please join IRC channel #linaro-gsoc if you haven't already. I'm 'gcl' > > on that channel. For the AArch64 porting project you should be in > > contact with Steve McIntyre. For the UEFI por