Re: [OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Implement new v3_memalloc romvec interface for allocating aligned memory.

[Blue Swirl]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
 wrote:
> When attempting to load kadb from a Solaris 8 CD at boot, it seems that in order
> for kadb to allocate enough memory to load the kernel (and its modules) the
> /openprom/aligned-allocator property must be present with length zero.
>
> This has the additional side-effect that OpenBIOS memory allocations are
> redirected to a new romvec offset when this property is detected, which appears
> to have a similar interface to obp_dumb_memalloc() but with an extra
> alignment parameter. Hence we include a simple implementation which seems
> to be enough to be able to get kadb to load and attach to the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland

Reviewed-by: Blue Swirl