From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kgene.kim@samsung.com (Kukjin Kim) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:43:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: dts: fix split memory bank for SSDK5440 In-Reply-To: <3158118.uctD3XVWRG@flatron> References: <1356030217-5472-1-git-send-email-kgene.kim@samsung.com> <1464138.NEt7mMkYJc@flatron> <50D38F04.8020307@gmail.com> <3158118.uctD3XVWRG@flatron> Message-ID: <01f901cddf14$39f04500$add0cf00$@samsung.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Tomasz Figa wrote: > > On Thursday 20 of December 2012 14:19:48 Subash Patel wrote: > > I would like to ask a question here. Do we need to have sparse even if > > the physical memory is contiguous? All the recent exynos machines come > > with physical banks without any holes, and I am thinking why not drop it > > and use flat mem instead. With LPAE these sections sizes wont be useful, > > and I dont like to keep different section sizes for different > > configurations. Any suggestions/opinions are very much helpful to me. > > Since sparse memory is the only option available on Exynos currently in > kernel configuration, I assume there was a reason for it. However I am not > an expert in memory management, so please correct me if I am wrong. > Hmm...yeah, as Subash said, it's no problem to disable sparsemem on EXYNOS for now but memory hole can be existing on upcoming EXYNOS such as S5PV210 so keeping sparsemem would be better I think. - Kukjin