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To: "David C. Chiu" <dchiu@ariodata.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory Pre-allocation (mem=xxx) 
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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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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