[RFC 5/5] ARM: P2V: extend to 16-bit translation offsets

David Brown davidb at codeaurora.org
Tue Jan 4 18:14:00 EST 2011


On Tue, Jan 04 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> MSM's memory is aligned to 2MB, which is more than we can do with our
> existing method as we're limited to the upper 8 bits.  Extend this by
> using two instructions to 16 bits, automatically selected when MSM is
> enabled.

I've verified that the these 5 patches boot on an MSM QSD 8x50, both
with and without ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT enabled.  I haven't tried building
with a different offset than it is running at, yet.

David

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