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@ 2003-04-03  1:38 Bill Fincke
  2003-04-03  5:41 ` bigphysarea vinai
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From: Bill Fincke @ 2003-04-03  1:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev


Does anyone know if there is a maximum size of the memory region allocated at boot time by the bigphysarea patch? In particular, under a 2.4.19 kernel, with 1GB of RAM, can 512MB or more be reserved?

Bill Fincke
Synergy Microsystems
willy@synergymicro.com

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* Re: bigphysarea
  2003-04-03  1:38 bigphysarea Bill Fincke
@ 2003-04-03  5:41 ` vinai
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: vinai @ 2003-04-03  5:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bill Fincke; +Cc: linuxppc-dev


Does this patch even work on the PPC architecture ?  I thought it was an
x86-only patch ... ??

vinai

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Bill Fincke wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a maximum size of the memory region
> allocated at boot time by the bigphysarea patch?  In particular,
> under a 2.4.19 kernel, with 1GB of RAM, can 512MB or more be
> reserved?
>
> Bill Fincke
> Synergy Microsystems
> willy@synergymicro.com


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