Re: [PATCH x86 for review II] [13/39] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGNlimited to 4M?

From: Rene Herman
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 01:37:36 EST


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

From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx>

[ ... ]

--- 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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