Re: [PATCH v5 00/19] ARM: Add support for the Large PhysicalAddress Extensions

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Mon May 23 2011 - 12:54:37 EST


On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 01:51:19PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> This set of patches adds support for the Large Physical Extensions on
> the ARM architecture (available with the Cortex-A15 processor). LPAE
> comes with a 3-level page table format (compared to 2-level for the
> classic one), allowing up to 40-bit physical address space.
>
> The ARM LPAE documentation is available from (free registration needed):
>
> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0406b_virtualization_extns/index.html
>
> The full set of patches on top of linux-next (LPAE, support for an
> emulated Versatile Express with Cortex-A15 tile and generic timers) is
> available on this branch:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm.git arm-lpae-next

FYI, I'm going to drop the pgt patch because the warnings are still there
and I _still_ don't feel happy about pushing that into mainline and then
being endlessly bugged about it.

So I'll drop it from my tree again and re-merge that branch after this
window has closed.
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