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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] ppc64: 64K pages support
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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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