Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc64: 64K pages support | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:33:55 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 17:57 -0600, Sonny Rao wrote: > On 11/16/05, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 00:08 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:01 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: > > > > > I didn't have any luck on 2.6.14-git12 either. > > > > > I tried 64k page support on my P570. > > > > > > > > > > Here are the console messages: > > > > > > > > What distro do you use in userland ? Some older glibc > versions have a > > > > bug that cause issues with 64k pages, though it > generally happens with > > > > login blowing up, not init ... > > > > > > SLES9 (could be SLES9 SP1). > > > > Can you double check? rpm -qi glibc | head should be > enough. > > Would be bad if SP2 or SP3 does not work with 64k. > > > > I think I am using SLES9. Planning to update to SP3. > > > Badari, the problem is with your toolchain.. > the binutils in SLES9 is too old (even in SP3) > > The issue is that it cannot align something (the zero page I think) to > 64kb . > > SLES9 SP3 has "GNU ld version 2.15.90.0.1.1 20040303 (SuSE Linux)" > > But I have to use binutils 2.15.94 to make a 64kb kernel boot > properly > (I can give you the package offline if you need)
Thank you Sonny. I updated my binutils package and 64k pagesize kernel works fine for me (atleast booted fine).
Thanks, Badari
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