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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Tameen Khan <tameen@cisco.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Physical Memory map holes in PPC
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:31:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082701889.6442.2.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00b001c428eb$2d8ae740$273147ab@amer.cisco.com>


> I have looked through the boot memory allocator code for PPC and I dont find
> a similar memory map. They use a phys_avail array for boot memory allocation
> which is initialized to a single region from PPC_MEMSTART to total_memory.
> >From this it appears that there are no "holes" in physical memory map for
> PPC.

Most ppc32 don't, though it's fairly dependant on a given board. ppc64
do have holes, though at this point, it's not simple to get to them, the
data structure representing the physical memory map beeing marked __init...

Ben.


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23  4:26 Physical Memory map holes in PPC Tameen Khan
2004-04-23  6:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2004-12-31 20:01 dheeraj kumar

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