1. 23 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [SPARC64]: Rewrite bootup sequence. · bff06d55
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Instead of all of this cpu-specific code to remap the kernel
      to the correct location, use portable firmware calls to do
      this instead.
      
      What we do now is the following in position independant
      assembler:
      
      	chosen_node = prom_finddevice("/chosen");
      	prom_mmu_ihandle_cache = prom_getint(chosen_node, "mmu");
      	vaddr = 4MB_ALIGN(current_text_addr());
      	prom_translate(vaddr, &paddr_high, &paddr_low, &mode);
      	prom_boot_mapping_mode = mode;
      	prom_boot_mapping_phys_high = paddr_high;
      	prom_boot_mapping_phys_low = paddr_low;
      	prom_map(-1, 8 * 1024 * 1024, KERNBASE, paddr_low);
      
      and that replaces the massive amount of by-hand TLB probing and
      programming we used to do here.
      
      The new code should also handle properly the case where the kernel
      is mapped at the correct address already (think: future kexec
      support).
      
      Consequently, the bulk of remap_kernel() dies as does the entirety
      of arch/sparc64/prom/map.S
      
      We try to share some strings in the PROM library with the ones used
      at bootup, and while we're here mark input strings to oplib.h routines
      with "const" when appropriate.
      
      There are many more simplifications now possible.  For one thing, we
      can consolidate the two copies we now have of a lot of cpu setup code
      sitting in head.S and trampoline.S.
      
      This is a significant step towards CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      bff06d55
  2. 30 8月, 2005 2 次提交
  3. 24 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [SPARC64]: Add boot option to force UltraSPARC-III P-Cache on. · 816242da
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Older UltraSPARC-III chips have a P-Cache bug that makes us disable it
      by default at boot time.
      
      However, this does hurt performance substantially, particularly with
      memcpy(), and the bug is _incredibly_ obscure.  I have never seen it
      triggered in practice, ever.
      
      So provide a "-P" boot option that forces the P-Cache on.  It taints
      the kernel, so if it does trigger and cause some data corruption or
      OOPS, we will find out in the logs that this option was on when it
      happened.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      816242da
  4. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4