From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:09:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wf1.mips-uk.com ([194.74.144.154]:6017 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20040612AbXAJQJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:09:44 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0ABKt4C006269; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:21:04 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0ABKssQ006268; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:20:54 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:20:54 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Franck Bui-Huu Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] FLATMEM: allow memory to start at pfn != 0 [take #2] Message-ID: <20070110112054.GA6193@linux-mips.org> References: <116841864595-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <116841864595-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13570 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:44:03AM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Here's is the second attempt to make this works on your Malta board > and all other boards that have some data reserved at the start of > their memories. In these cases the first patchset assumed wrongly that > the start of the memory was after this reserved area. > > Patch 1/2 should work alone now. the kernel should report that your > mem config is wasting some memory for tracking reserved pages located > at the start of the mem. So this series now works for me, both 1/2 along and 1/2 + 2/2 applied. So I'll drop this into the 2.6.21 queue. Ralf