[PATCH] ARM: document the bigger pagetables needed for LPAE

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri May 24 12:21:10 EDT 2013


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:43:56PM +0100, Javi Merino wrote:
> The Booting documentation assumes that the initial pagetables are
> 16KiB but since 1b6ba46 (ARM: LPAE: MMU setup for the 3-level page
> table format) they are 20KiB for LPAE kernels.  Thus, the
> recommendation to put atags or the dtb in the first 16KiB is wrong,
> there's only 12KiB of space there in LPAE kernels, so update the
> documentation accordingly.
> ---
>  Documentation/arm/Booting |    9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Missing Signed-off-by?

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Catalin



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