From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Ian Chilton <ian@ichilton.co.uk>
Cc: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: crash in __alloc_bootmem_core on SGI current cvs
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:14:57 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010116171457.A884@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010116165534.A26392@woody.ichilton.co.uk>; from mailinglist@ichilton.co.uk on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:55:34PM +0000
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:55:34PM +0000, Ian Chilton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > mem=0x07800000@0x08800000
>
> What will I use with 96MB RAM please ?
>
>
> Is someone going to fix it so this param is not needed?
Don't use mem= on an ARC machine. The ARC firmware provides a usable way
to detect the installed amount of memory including memory used internally
by the firmware. If you use mem= on an ARC machine you'll simply make
the kernel stomp over all this firmwar data with more or less random
results.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-16 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-16 16:55 crash in __alloc_bootmem_core on SGI current cvs Ian Chilton
2001-01-16 17:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 19:14 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-01-16 19:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-16 16:59 Ian Chilton
2001-01-16 16:56 tmaloney
2001-01-15 17:11 Florian Lohoff
2001-01-15 21:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 8:10 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-16 14:36 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-01-16 15:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-16 16:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 16:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-16 16:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 19:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-16 19:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 20:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-16 16:44 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-01-16 16:28 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-01-16 16:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 19:22 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-17 13:15 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2001-01-17 13:15 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2001-01-16 16:01 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 16:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 16:49 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-01-16 18:48 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-01-16 19:52 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 23:03 ` Florian Lohoff
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