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Author SHA1 Message Date
Mark A. Greer
b2c5f61920 [POWERPC] Start arch/powerpc/boot code reorganization
This abstracts the operations used in the bootwrapper, and defines
the operations needed for the bootwrapper to run on an OF platform.

The operations have been divided up into platform ops (platform_ops),
firmware ops (fw_ops), device tree ops (dt_ops), and console ops
(console_ops).

The proper operations will be hooked up at runtime to provide the
functionality that you need.

Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-20 15:09:58 +10:00
Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
fda7ffd25f [POWERPC] Add -fno-stack-protector to BOOTCFLAGS in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile.
I got some undefined references to __stack_chk_fail in
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.o and arch/powerpc/boot/prom.o when I was trying
to build a kernel on Ubuntu Edgy Eft - which includes Stack Smashing
Protection.

This patch adds -fno-stack-protector to BOOTCFLAGS in
arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile (why does BOOTCFLAGS depend on HOSTCFLAGS and
not CFLAGS?).

Regards,
Niels Kristian Bech Jensen

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-07 20:19:15 +10:00
Richard Purdie
4f3865fb57 [PATCH] zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version
Upgrade the zlib_inflate implementation in the kernel from a patched
version 1.1.3/4 to a patched 1.2.3.

The code in the kernel is about seven years old and I noticed that the
external zlib library's inflate performance was significantly faster (~50%)
than the code in the kernel on ARM (and faster again on x86_32).

For comparison the newer deflate code is 20% slower on ARM and 50% slower
on x86_32 but gives an approx 1% compression ratio improvement.  I don't
consider this to be an improvement for kernel use so have no plans to
change the zlib_deflate code.

Various changes have been made to the zlib code in the kernel, the most
significant being the extra functions/flush option used by ppp_deflate.
This update reimplements the features PPP needs to ensure it continues to
work.

This code has been tested on ARM under both JFFS2 (with zlib compression
enabled) and ppp_deflate and on x86_32.  JFFS2 sees an approx.  10% real
world file read speed improvement.

This patch also removes ZLIB_VERSION as it no longer has a correct value.
We don't need version checks anyway as the kernel's module handling will
take care of that for us.  This removal is also more in keeping with the
zlib author's wishes (http://www.zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq24) and I've
added something to the zlib.h header to note its a modified version.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-22 15:05:58 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
9216ad8cb7 powerpc/32: Generate miboot images with ARCH=powerpc
Miboot images are apparently still used on some old 32-bit powermacs,
so build them with ARCH=powerpc if we're 32-bit and powermac support
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-15 13:00:08 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
66a45dd362 powerpc: Make COFF zImages for old 32-bit powermacs
This adds code to build zImage.coff and/or zImage.initrd.coff when
CONFIG_PPC32 and CONFIG_PPC_PMAC are defined.  It also restructures
the OF client code and adds some workarounds for OF quirks on the
older machines.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 15:04:06 +11:00
Kumar Gala
886c98d786 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix clean_files in arch/powerpc/boot Makefile
clean-files was being set twice rather than being appended to.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 16:28:13 +11:00
Kumar Gala
706e6b2caf [PATCH] powerpc: Fix suboptimal uImage target
Sam Ravnborg pointed out that calling if_changed was redundant in the
rule since a prerequisite had to have changed for us to get there.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:50:25 +11:00
Kumar Gala
8c441a57d7 [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for building uImages
powerpc: Add support for building uImages

Add support to build a kernel image bootable by u-boot.
Most of the makefile foo is taken from arch/ppc/boot/images/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:50:21 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
94b212c29f powerpc: Move ppc64 boot wrapper code over to arch/powerpc
This also extends the code to handle 32-bit ELF vmlinux files as well
as 64-bit ones.  This is sufficient for booting on new-world 32-bit
powermacs (i.e. all recent machines).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-16 13:52:21 +11:00