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@ 2000-08-24 21:35 root
  2000-08-25  9:03 ` slram David Woodhouse
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From: root @ 2000-08-24 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mtd


I am attempting to use the slram module, but the ftl_format program
crashes with a floating-point error every time. If anyone could point me
to _any_ info on slmod.o, it would be very helpful. There seems to be no
documentation on it, anywhere...

Thanks,

Ian



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* Re: slram
  2000-08-24 21:35 slram root
@ 2000-08-25  9:03 ` David Woodhouse
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From: David Woodhouse @ 2000-08-25  9:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: root; +Cc: mtd


ikinner@redhat.com said:
>  I am attempting to use the slram module, but the ftl_format program
> crashes with a floating-point error every time. If anyone could point
> me to _any_ info on slmod.o, it would be very helpful. There seems to
> be no documentation on it, anywhere... 

Don't use slram. Use mtdram.

mtdram uses vmalloc() to allocate a chunk of memory. slram just tries to 
use it, and you have to boot your kernel with a 'mem=' option telling it 
not to use all the physical memory it finds. I think the default for slram 
is to use 64Mb at 64Mb - so you'd need to boot with 'mem=64M'.



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dwmw2




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