From: linux@armlinux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [BUG] Is "mem=" kernel command line parameter broken on ARM?
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:06:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181116140627.GW30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181116133236.GA27819@picapica.im>
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:32:36PM +0100, Anton wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> I am trying to boot Linux on a custom board having SAMA5D21 chip.
> It has 64MiB of DRAM. So I thought it was a good idea to pass amount
> of physical memory available through command line parameter "mem=64M".
mem specifies not only the amount of memory, but also its location.
mem=64M tells the kernel that there is 64M at physical address zero.
Your device may not have memory at physical address zero, so that
will cause the kernel to try to use something that isn't RAM as
memory.
My guess is that memory starts at 0x20000000 on your platform based
on what you've provided in uboot, but I can't be certain.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-16 13:32 [BUG] Is "mem=" kernel command line parameter broken on ARM? Anton
2018-11-16 14:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2018-11-16 14:52 ` Anton
2018-11-16 15:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-16 15:30 ` Anton
2018-11-16 15:33 ` Lokesh Vutla
2018-11-16 15:48 ` Anton
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