Re: [POWERPC] 8xx: fix swap

[Vitaly Bordug]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:56:58 -0600
Kumar Gala wrote:

> 
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> 
> > This makes swap routines operate correctly on the ppc_8xx based  
> > machines.
> > Code has been revalidated on mpc885ads (8M sdram) with recent  
> > kernel. Based
> > on patch from Yuri Tikhonov <yur@xxxxxxxxxxx> to do the same on
> > arch/ ppc
> > instance.
> >
> > Recent kernel's size makes swap feature very important on
> > low-memory platforms,
> > those are actually non-operable without it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S      |   30
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++-
> > include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc32.h |    8 --------
> > 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> do we need similar fixes to arch/ppc ?
> 
there's patch from Yuri that does it for ppc/ - I guess you may just pick it up and place to your tree.

-- 
Sincerely, Vitaly
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