Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:02:38AM -0500, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> 
> I presume the kernel parameters are going to go somewhere else on
> Wildfire and friends, but this patch doesn't make it clear where
> exactly that is, so I'm going to keep hard-coding physical 0x30a000
> into aboot until someone tells me to do otherwise.

I think the idea was for the params to go to 0x40a000.

> (incidentally, I just noticed that aboot isn't going to work with
> 48-bit physical memory unless you recompile it, because it hardcodes
> PAGE_OFFSET in various places - do we ever define USE_48_BIT_KSEG?)

No, I don't believe we've ever actually tried it, it's just there as a
placeholder, as we *will* need it when boxes get so big (WILDFIRE)
that we can't generate physical addresses to access all the (possible)
hardware bits using 43-bit KSEG... ;-}

--Jay++

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jay A Estabrook                            Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project
Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K20         (508) 467-2080
200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752       Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------