Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc64: 64K pages support | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:32:15 +1100 |
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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:17 -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:21:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Booting current mainline with 64K pagesize enabled gives me a purple (!) > > screen early during boot. > > I seem to also be having problems with this patch. My OpenPOWER 720 > stopped booting with 2.6.14-git10(and later). Just using defconfig. > 64k page size NOT enabled. If I back out the 64k page size patch, > 2.6.14-git10 boots. I'm trying to get more info but it is painful. > It dies before xmon is initialized.
There have been a couple of fixes, try the very latest git. Also, try enabling early debug in arch/ppc64/kernel/setup.c
> I could have sworn that I booted 2.6.14-git7 with the 64k page size > patch applied. But, I can't do that now either. > > Some co-workers have successfully booted other POWER systems with these > kernels. So, it must be specific to my hardware/LPAR configuration.
Ok, i'll do more tests here too.
Ben.
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