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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c, branch v2.6.30.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/pseries: Fix ibm,client-architecture comment</title>
<updated>2009-04-07T05:18:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2009-03-31T20:14:01+00:00</published>
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We specify a 64MB RMO, but the comment says 128MB.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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We specify a 64MB RMO, but the comment says 128MB.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Clean up some prom printouts</title>
<updated>2009-04-07T05:18:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2009-03-31T20:06:15+00:00</published>
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Make all messages consistent, some have spaces before the "...", some do not.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Make all messages consistent, some have spaces before the "...", some do not.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Print progress of ibm,client-architecture method</title>
<updated>2009-04-07T05:18:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-31T20:06:14+00:00</published>
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The ibm,client-architecture method will often cause a reconfiguration reboot.
When this happens the last thing we see is:

	Hypertas detected, assuming LPAR !

Which doesn't explain what just happened.  Wrap the ibm,client-architecture
so it's clear what is going on:

	Calling ibm,client-architecture... done

In order to maintain the law of conservation of screen real estate, downgrade
two other messages to debug.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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The ibm,client-architecture method will often cause a reconfiguration reboot.
When this happens the last thing we see is:

	Hypertas detected, assuming LPAR !

Which doesn't explain what just happened.  Wrap the ibm,client-architecture
so it's clear what is going on:

	Calling ibm,client-architecture... done

In order to maintain the law of conservation of screen real estate, downgrade
two other messages to debug.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix prom_init on 32-bit OF machines</title>
<updated>2009-03-24T02:43:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-22T16:04:53+00:00</published>
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Commit e7943fbbfdb6eef03c003b374de1f802cc14f02a broke ppc32 using
Open Firmware client interface due to using the wrong relocation
macro when accessing the variable "linux_banner".

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit e7943fbbfdb6eef03c003b374de1f802cc14f02a broke ppc32 using
Open Firmware client interface due to using the wrong relocation
macro when accessing the variable "linux_banner".

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Print linux_banner in prom_init</title>
<updated>2009-03-11T06:11:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-04T19:02:01+00:00</published>
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So at least you can see what kernel you're booting if you die
before the kernel prints it mid-way through start_kernel().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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So at least you can see what kernel you're booting if you die
before the kernel prints it mid-way through start_kernel().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use correct type in prom_init.c</title>
<updated>2009-01-08T05:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-06T13:56:52+00:00</published>
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tce_entryp is a "u64 *" not an "unsigned long *".

[Split from a large patch -sfr]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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tce_entryp is a "u64 *" not an "unsigned long *".

[Split from a large patch -sfr]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "powerpc: Sync RPA note in zImage with kernel's RPA note"</title>
<updated>2008-10-31T11:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-31T11:27:17+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 91a00302959545a9ae423e99732b1e46eb19e877, plus
commit 0dcd440120ef12879ff34fc78d7e4abf171c79e4 ("powerpc: Revert CHRP
boot wrapper to real-base = 12MB on 32-bit") which depended on it.

Commit 91a00302 was causing NVRAM corruption on some pSeries machines,
for as-yet unknown reasons, so this reverts it until the cause is
identified.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 91a00302959545a9ae423e99732b1e46eb19e877, plus
commit 0dcd440120ef12879ff34fc78d7e4abf171c79e4 ("powerpc: Revert CHRP
boot wrapper to real-base = 12MB on 32-bit") which depended on it.

Commit 91a00302 was causing NVRAM corruption on some pSeries machines,
for as-yet unknown reasons, so this reverts it until the cause is
identified.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Delete unused prom_strtoul and prom_memparse</title>
<updated>2008-10-21T04:20:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-20T18:03:18+00:00</published>
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These functions should have been static, and inspection shows they
are no longer used.   (We used to parse mem= but we now defer that
to early_param).

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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These functions should have been static, and inspection shows they
are no longer used.   (We used to parse mem= but we now defer that
to early_param).

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Sync RPA note in zImage with kernel's RPA note</title>
<updated>2008-10-10T04:55:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-08T14:03:29+00:00</published>
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Commit 9b09c6d909dfd8de96b99b9b9c808b94b0a71614 ("powerpc: Change the
default link address for pSeries zImage kernels") changed the
real-base value in the CHRP note added by the addnote program from
12MB to 32MB to give more space for Open Firmware to load the zImage.
(The real-base value says where we want OF to position itself in
memory.)  However, this change was ineffective on most pSeries
machines, because the RPA note added by addnote has the "ignore me"
flag set to 1.  This was intended to tell OF to ignore just the RPA
note, but has the side effect of also making OF ignore the CHRP note
(at least on most pSeries machines).

To solve this we have to set the "ignore me" flag to 0 in the RPA
note.  (We can't just omit the RPA note because that is equivalent to
having an RPA note with default values, and the default values are not
what we want.)  However, then we have to make sure the values in the
zImage's RPA note match up with the values that the kernel supplies
later in prom_init.c with either the ibm,client-architecture-support
call or the process-elf-header call in prom_send_capabilities().

So this sets the "ignore me" flag in the RPA note in addnote to 0, and
adjusts the RPA note values in addnote.c and in prom_init.c to be
consistent with each other and with the values in ibm_architecture_vec.

However, since the wrapper is independent of the kernel, this doesn't
ensure that the notes will stay consistent.  To ensure that, this adds
code to addnote.c so that it can extract the kernel's RPA note from
the kernel binary and put that in the zImage.  To that end, we put the
kernel's fake ELF header (which contains the kernel's RPA note) into
its own section, and arrange for wrapper to pull out that section with
objcopy and pass it to addnote, which then extracts the RPA note from
it and transfers it to the zImage.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit 9b09c6d909dfd8de96b99b9b9c808b94b0a71614 ("powerpc: Change the
default link address for pSeries zImage kernels") changed the
real-base value in the CHRP note added by the addnote program from
12MB to 32MB to give more space for Open Firmware to load the zImage.
(The real-base value says where we want OF to position itself in
memory.)  However, this change was ineffective on most pSeries
machines, because the RPA note added by addnote has the "ignore me"
flag set to 1.  This was intended to tell OF to ignore just the RPA
note, but has the side effect of also making OF ignore the CHRP note
(at least on most pSeries machines).

To solve this we have to set the "ignore me" flag to 0 in the RPA
note.  (We can't just omit the RPA note because that is equivalent to
having an RPA note with default values, and the default values are not
what we want.)  However, then we have to make sure the values in the
zImage's RPA note match up with the values that the kernel supplies
later in prom_init.c with either the ibm,client-architecture-support
call or the process-elf-header call in prom_send_capabilities().

So this sets the "ignore me" flag in the RPA note in addnote to 0, and
adjusts the RPA note values in addnote.c and in prom_init.c to be
consistent with each other and with the values in ibm_architecture_vec.

However, since the wrapper is independent of the kernel, this doesn't
ensure that the notes will stay consistent.  To ensure that, this adds
code to addnote.c so that it can extract the kernel's RPA note from
the kernel binary and put that in the zImage.  To that end, we put the
kernel's fake ELF header (which contains the kernel's RPA note) into
its own section, and arrange for wrapper to pull out that section with
objcopy and pass it to addnote, which then extracts the RPA note from
it and transfers it to the zImage.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Make the 64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable</title>
<updated>2008-09-15T18:08:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-30T01:43:47+00:00</published>
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This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 64-bit by making the kernel as
a position-independent executable (PIE) when it is set.  This involves
processing the dynamic relocations in the image in the early stages of
booting, even if the kernel is being run at the address it is linked at,
since the linker does not necessarily fill in words in the image for
which there are dynamic relocations.  (In fact the linker does fill in
such words for 64-bit executables, though not for 32-bit executables,
so in principle we could avoid calling relocate() entirely when we're
running a 64-bit kernel at the linked address.)

The dynamic relocations are processed by a new function relocate(addr),
where the addr parameter is the virtual address where the image will be
run.  In fact we call it twice; once before calling prom_init, and again
when starting the main kernel.  This means that reloc_offset() returns
0 in prom_init (since it has been relocated to the address it is running
at), which necessitated a few adjustments.

This also changes __va and __pa to use an equivalent definition that is
simpler.  With the relocatable kernel, PAGE_OFFSET and MEMORY_START are
constants (for 64-bit) whereas PHYSICAL_START is a variable (and
KERNELBASE ideally should be too, but isn't yet).

With this, relocatable kernels still copy themselves down to physical
address 0 and run there.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 64-bit by making the kernel as
a position-independent executable (PIE) when it is set.  This involves
processing the dynamic relocations in the image in the early stages of
booting, even if the kernel is being run at the address it is linked at,
since the linker does not necessarily fill in words in the image for
which there are dynamic relocations.  (In fact the linker does fill in
such words for 64-bit executables, though not for 32-bit executables,
so in principle we could avoid calling relocate() entirely when we're
running a 64-bit kernel at the linked address.)

The dynamic relocations are processed by a new function relocate(addr),
where the addr parameter is the virtual address where the image will be
run.  In fact we call it twice; once before calling prom_init, and again
when starting the main kernel.  This means that reloc_offset() returns
0 in prom_init (since it has been relocated to the address it is running
at), which necessitated a few adjustments.

This also changes __va and __pa to use an equivalent definition that is
simpler.  With the relocatable kernel, PAGE_OFFSET and MEMORY_START are
constants (for 64-bit) whereas PHYSICAL_START is a variable (and
KERNELBASE ideally should be too, but isn't yet).

With this, relocatable kernels still copy themselves down to physical
address 0 and run there.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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