From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Generic DISCONTIGMEM Support on 32bit MIPS
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:44:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020125124429.A961@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C51838A.174F8712@river-bank.demon.co.uk>; from phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:10:50PM +0000
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:10:50PM +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
> I'm working on a port of 32bit MIPS to a board with several large holes
> in the memory map. So I need to re-implement paging_init() and
> mem_init().
>
> The first question is: has anybody already done this? Particularly as,
> once you've identified where the holes are, the code isn't board
> specific.
>
> If not then I'll try to work out what needed from the corresponding
> mips64 and ip27 code, but I'd appreciate any pointers.
Great, I was already planning to do this next. Discontiguous memory is a
common problem on MIPS systems; it's almost standard for systems that
have more than 256mb of memory.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-25 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-25 16:10 Generic DISCONTIGMEM Support on 32bit MIPS Phil Thompson
2002-01-25 20:44 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-01-26 10:37 ` Phil Thompson
2002-01-25 21:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2002-01-25 21:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
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