1. 23 Sep, 2005 1 commit
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      [SPARC64]: Rewrite bootup sequence. · bff06d55
      David S. Miller authored
      Instead of all of this cpu-specific code to remap the kernel
      to the correct location, use portable firmware calls to do
      this instead.
      
      What we do now is the following in position independant
      assembler:
      
      	chosen_node = prom_finddevice("/chosen");
      	prom_mmu_ihandle_cache = prom_getint(chosen_node, "mmu");
      	vaddr = 4MB_ALIGN(current_text_addr());
      	prom_translate(vaddr, &paddr_high, &paddr_low, &mode);
      	prom_boot_mapping_mode = mode;
      	prom_boot_mapping_phys_high = paddr_high;
      	prom_boot_mapping_phys_low = paddr_low;
      	prom_map(-1, 8 * 1024 * 1024, KERNBASE, paddr_low);
      
      and that replaces the massive amount of by-hand TLB probing and
      programming we used to do here.
      
      The new code should also handle properly the case where the kernel
      is mapped at the correct address already (think: future kexec
      support).
      
      Consequently, the bulk of remap_kernel() dies as does the entirety
      of arch/sparc64/prom/map.S
      
      We try to share some strings in the PROM library with the ones used
      at bootup, and while we're here mark input strings to oplib.h routines
      with "const" when appropriate.
      
      There are many more simplifications now possible.  For one thing, we
      can consolidate the two copies we now have of a lot of cpu setup code
      sitting in head.S and trampoline.S.
      
      This is a significant step towards CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      bff06d55
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