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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

  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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