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From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
To: fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: ioremap and 1GB RAM
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 09:26:17 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030907162617.86162.qmail@web14904.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030907021158.66677.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com>

A solution I have found is to add:
reserve=FE000000-100000000
to the kernel command line.

This will cause 512MB of addess space in first 1GB of addressing range to be
left free for PCI devices.

I thought the i875 chipset supported 64bit DMA so there may be a bigger problem
here.

--- Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm running 2.6 with 1GB mem and HIGHMEM4G.
> My system is booted and then I 'modprobe radeonfb'.
> My ioremap of the framebuffer fails.
> If I reboot with mem=850M this works.
> 
> Am I out of address space for the video memory ioremap?
> Is there a kernel param to force more memory to be highmem?
> 
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-07 16:26 UTC|newest]

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2003-09-07  2:11 ioremap and 1GB RAM Jon Smirl
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