On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 21:53 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 21:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I've built a netboot installer image and run through it on a Calxeda > > > system. > > This system has 8GB of RAM, so an LPAE kernel flavour would be quite > useful. The patch (below) seems remarkably simple and, build, installs > and and boots for me. Yes, we should certainly be adding LPAE. > Perhaps we want to consider getting rid of the vexpress and/or mx5 > flavours before adding another one? The armmp flavour appears to have > the relevant options turned on, but has anyone tried it? I guess we'd > want to add dummy patches to aid in the transition? linux-latest could build transitional packages (as for the i386/686 flavour in squeeze->wheezy). [...] > --- /dev/null > +++ b/linux/debian/config/armhf/config.lpae > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ > +## > +## file: arch/arm/mm/Kconfig > +## > +CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y Shouldn't this also enable KVM (which depends on ARM_LPAE)? (I'm surprised you haven't asked to enable XEN & XEN_DOM0 on armhf yet...) > diff --git a/linux/debian/config/armhf/defines b/linux/debian/config/armhf/defines > index 643a4d3..0b4c6c2 100644 > --- a/linux/debian/config/armhf/defines > +++ b/linux/debian/config/armhf/defines > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ > [base] > flavours: > armmp > + armmp-lpae > mx5 > omap > vexpress > @@ -19,6 +20,18 @@ image-file: arch/arm/boot/zImage > hardware: ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs > hardware-long: ARMv7 multiplatform kernel for Marvell Armada 370/xp, Freescale iMX5x/iMX6 > > +[armmp-lpae_build] > +image-file: arch/arm/boot/zImage > + > +[armmp-lpae_description] > +hardware: ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs [...] The short description should be different from that for armmp as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.
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