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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: how to use memory before kernel load address?
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:04:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071120130451.GI11996@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50c9a2250711191706g40744ab2w2027124c4bc8dbbb@mail.gmail.com>

zhuzhenhua wrote:
> hello,all
>           i want to place my kernel loadaddr=0x81008000 and set
> EBASE=0x81000000, it workes.
>          but there is still some memory usable before 0x81000000, for
> example from 0x80100000 ~ 0x80200000

The obvious thing to do seems to set LOARADDR to 0x80208000.

>          i have try to pass param as mem=1M@1M mem=16M@16M  to the kernel,
> it seems only take the 0x8000000 ~ kernel_end as reserved.
>          is there any other options to set the memory useable? ( my kernel
> version is 2.6.14)
>          thanks for any hints

AFAIR the kernel assumes to occupy the lowest addresses of the usable RAM.


Thiemo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20  1:06 how to use memory before kernel load address? zhuzhenhua
2007-11-20  2:51 ` [SPAM] " Markus Gothe
2007-11-20 13:04 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2007-11-20 13:44   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-11-21  3:58   ` zhuzhenhua

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