Re: [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: use virtual addresses from xkphys for MIPS64

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 06:10:29PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> From: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Now 64-bit MIPS uses 32-bit compatible segments KSEG0 and KSEG1
> to trivially map first 1/2 GByte of physical memory. This memory
> used to run kernel. This mean, one should have memory installed
> in this area in order for Linux to work.
> 
> Kconfig CONFIG_USE_XKPHYS introduced; it adds support for kernel
> to use virtual addresses from the XKPHYS segment for both cached
> and uncached access. XKPHYS allows to access 2^48 bytes of
> memory, thus allowing kernel to work with any memory
> configuration.

IMHO it doesn't make sense to introduce an option for a generic
kernel, which then renders the generic kernel useless on all
platforms other then yours.

Please don't use generic, but setup a new platform for it. Hopefully
we can get rid all of the weirdness in this patch.

Thomas.

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