Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Mapped kernel support for Broadcom XLP

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On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 08:58:20PM +0530, Jayachandran C wrote:
> This patchset adds support for loading a XLR/XLP kernel compiled with a
> CKSEG2 load address.
> 
> The changes are to:
>  - move the existing MAPPED_KERNEL option from sgi-ip27 to common config
>  - Add a plat_mem_fixup function to arch_mem_init which will allow
>    the platform to calculate the kernel wired TLB entries and save
>    them so that all the CPUs can set them up at boot.
>  - Update PAGE_OFFSET, MAP_BASE and MODULE_START when mapped kernel
>    is enabled.
>  - Update compressed kernel code to generate the final executable in
>    KSEG0 and map the load address of the embedded kernel before loading
>    it.
>  - Use wired entries of sizes 256M/1G/4G to map the available memory on
>    XLP9xx and XLP2xx
> 
> Comments and suggestions welcome.

Looks like I missed a patch while sending this out. Will send the full
patchset again (and fix it up in patchwork).

JC.


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