On Fri, Jan 20, 2023, at 14:34, Alexander Stein wrote:
> From: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
>
> The only missing configuration option preventing us from using
> multi_v7_defconfig with the Raspberry Pi 4 is ARM_LPAE. It's needed as
> the PCIe controller found on the SoC depends on 64bit addressing, yet
> can't be included as not all v7 boards support LPAE.
>
> Introduce multi_v7_lpae_defconfig, built off multi_v7_defconfig, which will
> avoid us having to duplicate and maintain multiple similar configurations.
>
> Needless to say the Raspberry Pi 4 is not the only platform that can
> benefit from this new configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This is ok in principle, two minor points though:
> +include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.defconf
> +PHONY += multi_v7_lpae_defconfig
> +multi_v7_lpae_defconfig:
> + $(call merge_into_defconfig,multi_v7_defconfig,lpae)
>
> define archhelp
> echo '* zImage - Compressed kernel image (arch/$(ARCH)/boot/zImage)'
The new target does not get listed in 'make help' as far as I can
tell, can you add it there in the process?
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/lpae.config b/arch/arm/configs/lpae.config
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..19bab134e014b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/lpae.config
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y
My feeling is that we probably want CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G=y here
as well, given that a lot of the systems that want LPAE
will have a lot of memory, and are limited by the amount
of lowmem even when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is enabled.
Can you make sure that this works on your machine, and
include this option?
Arnd
