On Sat Jan 24 at 07:59:47 EST in 2009, Benjamin Walsh wrote:
I am trying to use kexec with a crash dump kernel on a Maple board
(Motorola
ATCA6101 to be precise). This board is running a two-CPU PPC970FX. I am
running a 2.6.27-10 kernel and have tried both older kexec-tools and
the
newest
added to the linear map -- except it
should be mapped cache inhibited so that may not work either.
Basically, I am trying to figure out if I patched the tool correctly.
Thanks,
Ben
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Milton Miller milt...@bga.com wrote:
On Sat Jan 24 at 07:59:47 EST in 2009
On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
--- work.git.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/setup.c-static void
pmac_cpu_die(void)
+static void pmac64_cpu_die(void)
...
--- work.git.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/smp.c 2009-01-05
02:09:08.0 -0600
-void
On Friday, Feb 8, 2008 David Gibson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:55:42PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
From: Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
[snip]
+void platform_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4, unsigned long r5,
+ unsigned long r6, unsigned long r7)
+{
+const u32
On Sat Feb 16 00:40:01 EST 2008, Pavel Kiryukhin pkiryukhin wrote:
Add uart 16550 properties description to Xilinx portion of
booting-without-of.txt
This patch description is a bit weak. How about adding what properties
are being added. Also, as described below, it's going to become more
On Sat Feb 16 00:30:09 EST 2008, Pavel Kiryukhin wrote:
Add regshift reading to serial drivers.
This enables correct operation of serial ports with
nonzero regshift such as Xilinx opb 16550 uart.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Kiryukhin pkiryukhin at ru.mvista.com
This patch is incomplete in that it
At Wed Feb 20 22:31:44 EST 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
I was running sparse on something else and noticed sparse warnings
and especially the bogus code that is fixed by the first hunk of
this patch, so I fixed them all while at it.
But your change is not equivalent!
---
At Fri Feb 22 07:07:58 EST 2008, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
I'm wondering how to disable or enable CPU features based on the board
the
kernel is running on. In my case I want to disable the
CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT flag for 74xx CPUs, because it locks up the
machine.
I tried to clear the flag in
yyerror() is used by both dtc-parser.y and dtc-lexer.l, so move
the declaration to srcpos.h.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
eliminates implicit declaration warning.
Index: dtc/dtc-parser.y
===
--- dtc.orig/dtc
struct data or directly copying empty_data.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
It took me a bit of time to find the source of the
uninitialized pointer that was causing my changes
to segfault.
diff --git a/data.c b/data.c
index 5d7db17..3d68792 100644
--- a/data.c
+++ b/data.c
When writing the memory reserve table in assembly output,
emit both halves of each 64 bit number on a single .long
statement. This results in two lines per memory reserve
slot instead of four, each line contains one field (start
or size).
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED
Create a source file with labels for use as a testcase
to check parsing dts files.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
I started with the existing test01.dts and added labels and
a labeled subnode.
The labels could instead be added to that file if desired,
but that would mean
This series creates a 32 bit zImage wrapper for a 32 or 64 bit PowerPC
Linux kernel. This allows you to kexec a zImage with its compressed
vmlinux instead of the uncompressed vmlinux elf. The elf is also
packaged as a 64 bit elf for use by kexec-tools for 64 bit kernels.
This series also adds
Record the number of header bytes skipped in the total bytes read field.
This is needed for the initramfs parsing code to find the end of the zip file.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Index: work.git/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c
Call gunzip_partial to calculate the remaining length and copy the
data to the user buffer. This makes it shorter and reduces
duplication.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Index: work.git/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c
requirements.
Note: this code works with kernel head_64.S. head_6xx.S needs the
0x60 entry point (it currently uses something closer to 0xC0; but
the similar code is at 0xC4); the other heads don't appear to support
SMP.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Cleaned up documentation
,
then then call init_malloc for fine grain allocation.
Also, an optional vmlinux_alloc.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Fixed a bug when extending across multiple ranges.
Cleaned up documentation
Index: work.git/arch/powerpc/boot/memranges.c
Add code to check if the processor is in 64 or 32 bit mode using
only instructions from the 32 bit subset. If the processor is in
64 bit mode, switch to 32 bit mode by clearing MSR[SF].
Also add a 64 bit procedure descriptor to use as a elf64 entry
point.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL
An example using the marshalling code that can be entered by sreset.
By linking the marshalling code is at 0 and differentiating a cpu
id from a device tree, it also works for kexec.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
For reference only, not intended to be merged.
Index
On Wed Jul 18 19:26:40 EST 2007, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
In some configuration, xmon help string is larger than xmon_printf
buffer. We need not to use printf. This patch adds xmon_puts and
change to use it to show help string.
[Since I'm requesting changes I'll suggest a new change log.]
In some
On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:39 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:08:32PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
Call gunzip_partial to calculate the remaining length and copy the
data to the user buffer. This makes it shorter and reduces
duplication.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL
On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
Milton Miller wrote:
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed Jul 18 11:33:08 EST 2007, Scott Wood wrote:
1. ft_create_node was returning the internal pointer rather than a
phandle.
2. ft_find_device_rel was treating lookups relative to root
On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
case '?':
- printf(help_string);
+ xmon_puts(help_string);
break;
nonstdio.h #defines printf to xmon_printf
On Jul 20, 2007, at 3:15 AM, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
case '?':
- printf(help_string);
+ xmon_puts
On Thu Aug 23 13:27:31 EST 2007, Kumar Gala wrote:
On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 0028fe6..dc85005 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@
boot wrapper.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Milton Miller, IBM Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License
On Wed Sep 5 12:44:17 EST 2007, Olof Johansson wrote:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
index 041df77..b9f1efa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ config MPIC_U3_HT_IRQS
On Sep 7, 2007, at 4:21 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
Some versions of PWRficient 1682M have an interrupt controller in which
the first register in each pair for interrupt sources doesn't always
read with the right polarity/sense values.
To work around this, keep a software copy of the register
On Fri Sep 7 10:58:03 EST 2007, David Gibson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:21:16PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
This target produces a flat binary rather than an ELF file,
fixes the entry point at the beginning of the image, and takes
a complete device tree with no fixups needed.
The device
On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:25:13AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
(5) space below load to decompress vmlinux (no vmlinux_alloc to
fallback to malloc)
(6) all space above load address available to hold malloc region
(7) for console output (or input)
The following series of 15 patches implement
support for 64-bit powerpc zImage to be loaded by kexec-tools
the wrapper uses the same startup interface as the kernel
support for obtaining the kernel externally to the zImage link
including via
Some platforms have a boot agent that can create or modify properties in
the device-tree and load images into memory. Provide a helper to set
loader_info used by prep_initrd().
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
re 12168
rediffed types.h
Record the number of header bytes skipped in the total bytes read field.
This is needed for the initramfs parsing code to find the end of the zip file.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Identical to 12169
Index: kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c
requirements.
Note: this code works with kernel head_64.S. head_6xx.S needs the
0x60 entry point (it currently mentions something at address 0xC0; but
the similar code is at 0xC4); the other heads don't appear to support
SMP.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12171
get barrier from
occupied (add_known_ranges et al), initialize malloc in
the spaces between (ranges_init_malloc), and optionally use the supplied
vmlinux_alloc may be used.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12172
rename rmo_end to rma_end (real mode area, as used in papr)
removed section
Add code to check if the processor is in 64 or 32 bit mode using
only instructions from the 32 bit subset. If the processor is in
64 bit mode, switch to 32 bit mode by clearing MSR[SF].
Also add a 64 bit procedure descriptor to use as a elf64 entry
point.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL
: the device-tree generated by kexec-tools is currently version 2,
not the version 16 supported by the boot code base.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
find_rmo_end moved to memranges as find_rma_end.
early_scan_flat_tree replaced with calls to its pieces in
kexec_platform_init
rediff
the OF_DT_NOPs.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12175
Rediffed Makefile, ops, kexec.c
Index: kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree_conv.c
===
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 +
+++ kernel/arch/powerpc
to add_occupied_range is needed
here.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12176
rtas_put_term_write now takes const char *buf
rediff ops.h, Makefile
Index: kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/rtas.c
===
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01
Add a library to search through a cpio or initramfs buffer for a
specified path name. No canocalization of the path is performed.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12177
rediff Makefile
cpio.c should be reusable by a stand alone user space applicaton.
Index: kernel/arch
the kernel to execute and any user space tools such
as kexec (for reboot), crash dump, or oprofile.
Another use would be to uncompress directly from a memory mapped
region such as a flash partition.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12178, just fuzz.
The source and source len
Teach the kexec platform to find the vmlinux from the initramfs.
The implementation searches the initramfs for a path specified
by the property linux,kernel-path in chosen.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12179
change property from boot-file to linux,kernel-path
context
Allow the boot wrapper code to be linked without an attached vmlinux.
Rather than invent a new syntax to invoke the wrapper, attach the
stripped version of empty.o, which produces the same result.
This new intermediary is called zBoot.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs
The kexec code is doing strange contortions with dtops.finalize and
platform_ops.vmlinux_alloc to manage the slave cpus. Add a hook
with the needed information.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vs 12181
rediff fuzz.
Index: kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/kexec.c
After the fixups hook has run, if we still have not set a command line,
check to see if fixups pointed us to one.
Running as a part of fixup allows device tree interaction and error
messages to be displayed.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
The code in main presently checks
/platforms/qemu/pci.c2007-09-19 02:56:36.0
-0500
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+/*
+ * prep Port to arch/powerpc:
+ * Copyright 2007 David Gibson, IBM Corporation.
+ *
+ * prep Port to qemu:
+ * Copyright 2007 Milton Miller, IBM Corporation.
+ *
+ * Based on OpenHackware 0.4
+ * Copyright (c) 2004-2005
On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:36 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:05:06PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
kexec-tools still produces a version 2 device tree, while the
libraries in the wrapper only support version 16 and later.
Add a routine to convert a v2 flat device tree to a v16
On Sep 23, 2007, at 9:58 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:03:24PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
Some platforms have a boot agent that can create or modify properties
in
the device-tree and load images into memory. Provide a helper to set
loader_info used by prep_initrd
On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:09 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:04:18PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
Add a set of library routines to manage gross memory allocations.
This code uses an array in bss to store upto 32 entrys with merging
representing a range of memory below rma_end
On Sep 24, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:00:47PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
Basically because PReP support doesn't work under arch/powerpc.
Getting it working properly is something that should happen, but will
take a while. In the meantime, getting
On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:45 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:19:47AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:46 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:54:32AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:36 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21
On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:40 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:44:27AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:45 PM, David Gibson wrote:
The actual binary structure is compatable, just not the contents of
the
properties nor how any slave cpus wait (for some trees
at the
cpu_mask arg, instead get_irq_server reads it from the irq descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
On top of tonys patch (13926)
I don't have a system to test hotplug, so this is only compile tested.
A more complete fix might be to pass the cpu_mask struct
Don't allow cpu hotplug on pSeries systems lacking XICS interrupt controller,
since current code is hardcoded to call xics routines.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Olof's patch searched the device-tree again, looking for an mpic. This
code instead checks that we found
Joel Schoopp wrote:
Paulus wrote:
[c0003f923c40] c003bff4 .xics_migrate_irqs_away+0x3c/0x20c
[c0003f923d00] c0040d54 .pseries_cpu_disable+0x98/0xb4
[c0003f923d80] c0028e4c .__cpu_disable+0x44/0x58
[c0003f923df0] c007e204 .take_cpu_down+0x34/0x60
On Oct 10, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:08:44AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
Olof's patch searched the device-tree again, looking for an mpic.
This
code instead checks that we found an xics the first time by checking
the
init function.
I'm glad you
On Thu Oct 11 10:04:40 EST 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Linas Vepstas writes:
Err .. it was cpu 0 that was spinlocked. Are interrupts not
distributed?
We have some bogosities in the xics code that I noticed a couple of
days ago. Basically we only set the xics to distribute interrupts to
Paul Mackerras writes:
Olof Johansson writes:
Don't allow cpu hotplug on systems lacking XICS interrupt controller,
since current code is hardcoded for it.
...
+for (np = NULL; (np = of_find_node_by_name(np,
+ interrupt-controller));) {
On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Matt Sealey wrote:
Grant Likely wrote:
On 9/30/07, David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:53:28PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
I'm working on merging dtc into the kernel tree instead.
I'm kind of late to this party; but I have to say
On Tue Oct 16 15:02:17 EST 2007, David Gibson wrote:
This very large patch incorporates a copy of dtc into the kernel
source, in arch/powerpc/boot/dtc-src. This means that dtc is no
longer an external dependency to build kernels with configurations
which need a dtb file.
Signed-off-by:
On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:45 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:59:26PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
On Tue Oct 16 15:02:17 EST 2007, David Gibson wrote:
This very large patch incorporates a copy of dtc into the kernel
On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:30 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
On Tue Oct 16 15:02:17 EST 2007, David Gibson wrote:
Too big for the list, full patch at
http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/home/merge-dtc.patch+
So split it up. The obvious one
to KBUILD_CFLAGS instead.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
The commit also changed xtensia to export EXTRA_CFLAGS from its boot
directory, that needs to be fixed too.
from ARCH=ppc prep_defconfig:
/data/home/miltonm/work.git/arch/ppc/boot/of1275/write.c:11:20: error:
of1275.h
On Wed Oct 24 17:11:29 EST 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:13:09 +0200 Marian Balakowicz wrote:
+root = of_find_node_by_path(/);
+if (root)
+model = of_get_property(root, model, NULL);
+of_node_put(root);
The
On Thu, 20 May 2010 at 10:21:36 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 16:38 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Darren Hart wrote:
On 05/18/2010 06:25 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-18
On Thu May 20 at 11:28:36 EST in 2010, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 07:16 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
On 05/18/2010 06:25 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 15:22 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
On 05/18/2010 02:52 PM, Brian King wrote:
Is IRQF_NODELAY
[resending to hit the list]
+ if (regs-gpr[0] == 0x1ebe
+ cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_REAL_LE)) {
+ regs-msr ^= MSR_LE;
+ goto instr_done;
+ }
regs-gpr[9] = regs-gpr[13];
+ regs-gpr[10]
After the following patch to mark the isa region busy and applying a few
patches[1], I was able to kexec boot into an all-yes-config kernel from
linux-next, with the following KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG file:
# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set
# CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is not set
or find the address in the device tree.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
There is no powerpc defconfig that sets either CONFIG_DOC200{0,1*} nor
CONFIG_MTD_NAND_DISKONCHIP in next-20080710.
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c
index 6e5d811
a fatal DSI.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Previously this patch tried to check if iommu=off was specified, but it was
requested that the check just be removed.
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=11774
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
skip
bringing the cpu online, leaving the thread spinning on the paca. We don't
handle this case in kexec, and will leave the thread wild during another
kexec.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
I added a debug print and manually verified the correct cpumask was
generated on pSeries
and remove these stale properties before adding the new values.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
While there is an override flag to tell kexec a minimum memory to use, that
is a crude workaround and this should be applied to stable.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel
kcalloc is supposed to be called with the count as its first argument and
the element size as the second.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Both arguments are size_t so does not affect correctness. This callsite is
during module_init and therefore not performance critical
On Jul 10, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Milton Miller wrote:
After the following patch to mark the isa region busy and applying a
few
patches[1], I was able to kexec boot into an all-yes-config kernel
from linux-next, with the following KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG file:
...
While the first
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri Jul 11 00:59:25 EST 2008, Roman Zippel wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Michael Ellerman wrote:
Well yes :) But I think that's because you're thinking of
end-users and I'm thinking of users like myself - ie. _I_ use
Kconfig and I do expect myself to be able
Hi Roman.
I saw your reply on the list archives but can not find
it in my inbox.
On Sun Jul 13 at 09:21:08 EST 2008, Roman Zippel wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Milton Miller wrote:
(1) #define PAGE_OFFSET(ASM_CONST(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET) 32)
It creates unreadable code, where two defines
On Jul 14, 2008, at 2:59 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:26:56 -0600, David Hubbard wrote:
Hi Hans,
I propose writing a subsystem driver. (Is that properly called The
SuperIO Bus Driver?) If no one thinks it's a really bad idea I will
put together some code and submit it for
Hi.
I've been working with Debian bintuils 2.17-3 (which identifies
itself as 2.17) on my build box for some time.
When testing all-yes-config, I was getting warnings, but the
vmlinux was booting via kexec.
Since I was replicating the warnings from BFD about section lmas
overlapping in
On Thu Jul 17 at 23:22:28 EST in 2008, Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
Hello all,
I'm in the process of writing a mini-bootloaler for a custom board and
would
like some feedback on my boot methodology.
Basically the kernel code (elf file) is copied into memory by a JTAG
debugger. A custom program
On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:32 AM, Mohan Kumar M wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 00:10 +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote:
Extract list of relocation offsets
Please, provide an indication of what changed since the previous
version of the patch to make the reviewer's life easier
On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:47 PM, David Gibson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:11AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
On Thu Jul 17 at 23:22:28 EST in 2008, Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
[snip]
[more snip]
We call this the flattened device tree.
Your firmware doesn't have to deal with this though
On Fri Jul 18 18:43:11 EST 2008, Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
Hello Milton and David, thanks for the answers.
This is a very reasonable approach, and is quite similar to what
I do.
Makes me feel better !!!
You actually have a few choices. You can put just the loaded
data, or you can put the
Currently, tarball builds for powerpc kernels don't have any boot
images (other than vmlinux) present.
Add support for powerpc builds in the buildtar script, to include
a few default images.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
---
RFC: any requests for more/less boot images?
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Rune Torgersen wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Rune Torgersen wrote:
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
So again, nothing conclusive. I'm running out of ideas.
Is the syscall path different or the same on ppc and powerpc?
Any
On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
Milton,
Yes. How about all dtbImage, zImage, cuboot, treeboot, etc
that are newer than vmlinux?
The existing arch code doesn't do any checks for timestamps, perhaps
this would be better implemented as an arch-independent change?
The
On Sat Jul 26 at 07:25:47 EST in 2008, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
The kernel copy of the rtas args struct that is read in from
user space is a stack variable. This structure should be
zero'ed out before we do any reads/writes to/from the user
when handling a rtas call request. This patch adds a
On Sun Jul 13 22:20:28 EST 2008, Marvin wrote:
On Saturday 12 July 2008 20:00:05 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Marvin wrote:
attached patch introduces a processor type menu similar to ppc32.
It _should_ not change anything upto now.
The aim is to allow future fine graded
On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Milton Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add support for powerpc builds in the buildtar script, to include
a few default images.
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RFC: any requests for more/less boot images?
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+ for img in zImage
On Wed Jul 30 at 17:34:38 EST in 2008, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:29:19AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
Okay, so hvc_console is the culprit. It don't register a preferred
console if it knows it is not the first in the list.
The patch registers all available hvc consoles. It
Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list.
On Wed Jul 30 at 20:07:01 EST in 2008, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:13:47AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
On Wed Jul 30 at 17:34:38 EST in 2008, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:29:19AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote
On Thu Jul 31 at 15:21:25 EST in 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:51:43 +1000 (EST) Tony Breeds tony at
bakeyournoodle.com wrote:
total_memory is a 'phys_addr_t', cast to unsigned long to silence
warning.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c
TimurTabi wrote:
Yoder Stuart wrote:
The second was the idea that we may need a
/aliases/stdin as well. You could conceptually have
stdout be a monitor and a stdin be a keyboard.
I don't think the hypervisor console subsystem supports
this. I don't see any way of registering separate
On Aug 18, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Miklos Vajna wrote:
Hi!
I recently started to search for a solution to boot a Linux-2.6-based
kernel in qemu-system-ppc.
Google found two of your interesting patches:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patchcontent?id=13689
David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Aug 29 00:55:07 EST 2008
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:23 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 00:38 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
Hi Arjan,
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:33:08 +1000 Stephen Rothwell sfr at
canb.auug.org.au wrote:
The
On Wed Sep 24 at about 05:54:04 EST 2008, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
this could be used by the kexec userland code.
NACK.
First of all, you fail to justify why it is needed.
Second of all, its in the wrong place, if it were needed. The code
in arch/powerpc/boot does not get executed on all
On Wed Sep 24 at about 06:38:57 EST in 2008, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
My mylinux binary incl. bss is ~5 MiB without bss less than 4 MiB.
Therefore I though that I could replace ei.memsize with ei.loadsize. It
didn't work. I'm not sure why it did not work but I guess that the
memset() of bss in
Jan-Bernd wrote:
Ben, can you / your team look into the implementation
of the set_irq_type functionality needed for XICS?
I'm not volunteering to look at or implement any changes for how xics
works with generic irq, but I'm trying to understand what the rt kernel
is trying to accomplish with
On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 04:58 -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
The per-interrupt mask and unmask calls have to go through RTAS, a
single-threaded global context, which in addition to increasing
path length will really limit scalability
On Sep 24, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Sebastien Dugue wrote:
Hi Milton,
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:58:22 -0500 (CDT) Milton Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon Sep 15 at 18:04:06 EST in 2008, Sebastien Dugue wrote:
When entering the low level handler, level sensitive interrupts are
masked, then eio'd
On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:42 -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
I was trying to understand why the mask and early eoi, but I guess its
to handle other more limited interrupt controllers where the
interrupts
stack in hardware instead
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