From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:15:58 -0800 Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.146]:26102 "EHLO lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:15:50 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:14:57 -0200 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:14:57 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Ian Chilton Cc: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: crash in __alloc_bootmem_core on SGI current cvs Message-ID: <20010116171457.A884@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010116165534.A26392@woody.ichilton.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010116165534.A26392@woody.ichilton.co.uk>; from mailinglist@ichilton.co.uk on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:55:34PM +0000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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