kernel address space and auto-sizing

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 02/25/13 11:30, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:08:05 -0600
> Alan Cox <alc at rice.edu> wrote:
> 
>> architectures.  This review turned up a couple of odd things on the AIM
>> platform:
> 
> Is it really called the "AIM platform"? Was it ever?
> I've heard about the AIM Alliance[1], but never about the "AIM platform".
> Shouldn't it be called PReP or CHRP instead?
> Try googling "AIM platform", and see for yourself.
> 
> References:
> 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
> 

The official name is "Book-S" to distinguish it from "Book-E".
Previously, before Book-E, it was just the supervisor instructions for
PowerPC ("Operating Environment Architecture" or OEA) used in chips
related to the AIM alliance. You can find all these names at various
points in our tree.
-Nathan