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From: NANDA <heramba85@gmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Memory ZONES in PPC board
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:12:17 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9A5299.6040609@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello all,

We have PPC board which runs on linux kernel. When I looked at dmesg, 
the memory ZONES were divided as below

768MB for ZONE_DMA
256MB for ZONE_HIGHMEM
ZONE_NORMAL is not present.

Now what does this mean? Is that kernel space entirely mapped to 
ZONE_DMA? Does user process get only 256MB of physical memory? I am 
pretty much confused about these zones.

Is this particular to only PPC architecture?

Kindly clarify

Thanks in advance
Heramba
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