Hi Florian,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/25/2018 09:14 AM, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
>> On iWave's iwg20m DDR1 512MB memory cannot be accessed with 32-bit
>> addresses, hence we need LPAE.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> This information is mentioned in the "RZ/G Series User’s Manual: Hardware",
>> Chapter 2, Area Map. Is this patch going to break the functionality of other
>> boards? Comments welcome.
>
> LPAE is not supported by all Cortex-A class cores, for instance
> Cortex-A9 does not support LPAE, if you have boards using such cores,
Thanks for reminding me!
> then this would result in a kernel that would not boot on these
> platforms. Can that be a problem with the shmobile_defconfig?
Yes it is...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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