From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: "David C. Chiu" <dchiu@ariodata.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Memory Pre-allocation (mem=xxx)
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:57:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020223005729.F26B1109E3@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:42:46 PST." <8A098FDFC6EED94B872CA2033711F86F0ABD0C@orion.ariodata.com>
In message <8A098FDFC6EED94B872CA2033711F86F0ABD0C@orion.ariodata.com> you wrote:
>
> We're working on a project that requires a two megabytes block of
> contiguous memory in kernel space. Although it is well documented that
> memory can be reserved by using mem=xx arguments during boot time, it is
> unclear (to me) as to how a driver can automatically detect the size of
> the said reserved block.
Pass an extra boot argument?
Wolfgang Denk
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-23 0:42 Memory Pre-allocation (mem=xxx) David C. Chiu
2002-02-23 0:57 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2002-02-23 1:54 ` Jim Lewis
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2002-02-23 1:21 David C. Chiu
2002-02-25 12:35 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-02-23 3:11 David C. Chiu
2002-02-23 17:14 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-24 0:15 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-27 21:23 David C. Chiu
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