Re[4]: [PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-29 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
On Sunday, January 18, 2009 you wrote: Ok I tried this out in menuconfig. You are right that the depends on makes sense as it removes the option from the config file as not relevant. But right now to enable 256K pages one has to go to platform setup to find this dependency, then has to go

Re: Re[2]: [PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-18 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:32:25PM -0600, Milton Miller wrote: On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: On Friday, January 16, 2009 you wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. +config STDBINUTILS +

Re: Re[2]: [PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-17 Thread Milton Miller
On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: On Friday, January 16, 2009 you wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. +config STDBINUTILS + bool Using standard binutils settings + depends on 44x

Re: [PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-16 Thread Milton Miller
On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. Another day, another comment. The motivation for reply was the second comment below. diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 84b8613..18f33ef 100644

Re[2]: [PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Milton, On Friday, January 16, 2009 you wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. Another day, another comment. The motivation for reply was the second comment below. diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig

[PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-12 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume 2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space reserved for PTE tables: only 1/4 of pages allocated for PTEs are actually used. But this