Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-09-15 Thread Paul Mackerras
The following patches have been added to the the master and powerpc-next branches of the powerpc.git repository. This represents all of the patches that I have from the old patchwork. If you have a patch that you want to go in that isn't on the new patchwork page, please repost it. Paul. Becky

Re: Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-23 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: Kumar Gala writes: Once again I want to go through it carefully and understand how it all works, and in particular understand things like the way it ensures that the base address for the kmap region is aligned to a 4M boundary so all the

Re: Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 07:49 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: its left over from the x86 port. I'll get rid of __FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE, FIXADDR_BOOT_START, and __FIXADDR_TOP. If we want the early ioremap support in the future we can add back __FIXADDR_BOOT_SIZE and FIXADDR_BOOT_START. Our early

Re: Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:51 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: I'm not clear on why this is needed. I can see value in having the PGD entry in place but the pte PAs would be changing all the time so I don't see what benefit there is in keeping them in one page. Because they are accessed as an

Re: Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-21 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 19, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote: Kumar Gala writes: [POWERPC] 85xx: Add support for relocatble kernel (and booting at non- zero) Should be OK to go though probably not in the first batch. I want to look through it carefully again since it's touching code that is common

Re: Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Mackerras
Kumar Gala writes: Once again I want to go through it carefully and understand how it all works, and in particular understand things like the way it ensures that the base address for the kmap region is aligned to a 4M boundary so all the kmap ptes are in a single page (assuming it does

Re: Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
Kumar Gala writes: [POWERPC] 85xx: Add support for relocatble kernel (and booting at non- zero) Should be OK to go though probably not in the first batch. I want to look through it carefully again since it's touching code that is common to a lot of platforms. The patch description looks

Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
I have pushed out the following commits to the master and powerpc-next branches of the powerpc.git tree. This includes commits from Kumar's and Jeremy's trees. I am intending to ask Linus to pull the powerpc-next branch once we have the breakage from the OF helpers for i2c patch sorted out.

Re: Patches added to powerpc.git master and powerpc-next branches

2008-04-18 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote: I have pushed out the following commits to the master and powerpc-next branches of the powerpc.git tree. This includes commits from Kumar's and Jeremy's trees. I am intending to ask Linus to pull the powerpc-next branch once we have the