On 10/29/2013 10:26 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 22:05 +0100, Helge Deller wrote: >> Our value of SHMLBA is hardcoded to 4MB on parisc due to aliasing restrictions >> of the platform. The firmware function PDC_CACHE does return the machine >> dependend value of this aliasing requirement. >> So, if there is a difference between those two - which we don't expect - let's >> report it at least. > > We know that architecturally it's defined to be 16MB. However, we also > know from the chip architects that the greatest stride ever done or > planned was 4MB, which is why we use it. HPUX does the same, so there's > not much point issuing a warning, because it's likely that IODC isn't > setting up the values correctly and there's nothing a warning will > achieve except worrying the users if they bother to read it. Ok, thanks for this info. I'll drop that patch. Helge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
