linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH x86 for review II] [13/39] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL

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Message-ID: <45D15C7D.1050400@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:36:45 +0100
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	patches@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86 for review II] [13/39] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN
 limited to 4M?

On 02/12/2007 08:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:

> From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>

[ ... ]

> --- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
> +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
> @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ config RELOCATABLE
>  config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
>  	hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
>  	default "0x100000"
> -	range 0x2000 0x400000
> +	range 0x2000 0x1000000
>  	help
>  	  This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
>   	  where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an

Okay I guess, but in reply to this, Vivek Goyal pointed out a patch of 
his restoring CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START that was already in -mm instead 
since it seems Xen also wanted it. That does also match what I wanted it 
for better:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/376

Rene.

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