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SubjectRe: [2.6.15-rc2-mm1] Disabled flatmem on ppc32? (ARCH=powerpc)
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On Nov 27, 2005, at 08:43:40, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
>
>> There is a Kconfig problem for ppc32 in the latest -mm kernel. It
>> seems that somehow the Kconfig logic for selecting memory models
>> under ARCH=powerpc doesn't quite get it right for standard
>> flatmem ppc32 systems. When I look at the memory model
>> selection, I only see sparsemem, whereas on a normal -rc2 kernel,
>> I can see both flatmem and sparsemem. This somehow triggers a
>> #error where the number of reserved bits is less than the number
>> necessary for the sparsemem layout (because we're on a 32-bit arch
>> without the address space for sparsemem?).
>>
>
> I suspect we have neglected to add back the default for FLATMEM on
> 32 bit when we allowed FLATMEM to be disabled for 64 bit. Will go
> and look at it. Thanks for the report.
>

When you get it figured out, could you CC the patch to me? I'd like
to do some testing -mm1 and this is a bit of a showstopper :-D. Thanks!

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett


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