Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmlinux.lds.h: allow people to set a smaller rootfs alignment

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Jun 09 2010 - 04:20:41 EST


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 09:42, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> if we look at the alignments before the unification, we can easily see
> why Tim was a bit cautious and started the common value at PAGE_SIZE:

> m68k: 8192 (== 2x PAGE_SIZE?)

For Sun 3, PAGE_SIZE is 8192, not 4096. So it's the maximum page size on m68k.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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