Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932162AbWBXBie (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:38:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932159AbWBXBie (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:38:34 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:5031 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932162AbWBXBid (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:38:33 -0500 Message-ID: <43FE6397.4020302@mbligh.org> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:38:31 -0800 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rene Herman , Arjan van de Ven , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order References: <1140700758.4672.51.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1140707358.4672.67.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200602231700.36333.ak@suse.de> <1140713001.4672.73.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <43FE0B9A.40209@keyaccess.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1215 Lines: 28 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rene Herman wrote: > >>Also, did the kernel still boot on a 4M machine, and would it still do so with >>the change to 4M as posted? 2.4 used to boot fine with 4M. Not certain anymore >>if I ever tested that with 2.6 (and can't right now). > > > If you want to boot a 4MB machine with the suggested patch, you'd have to > enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED (something you'd likely want to do anyway, for a 4M > machine), and turn the physical start address back down to 1MB. > > That's one reason I didn't make it 16MB. A 4MB machine is pretty damn > embedded these days (you'd want to enable EMBEDDED just to turn off some > other things that make the kernel bigger), but I can imagine that real > people run Linux/x86 in 16MB as long as they don't run X. ISTR from a long time ago, bootstrapping NUMA-Q, that in early boot we only have the first 8MB mapped. Might have changed, and is probably easily fixable, but ... M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/