From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel.it>
To: Ruksen INANIR <rukseninanir@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: increase lowmem value for ppc
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:14:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487F297B.4070806@coritel.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487F1FD2.7090909@gmail.com>
Ruksen INANIR ha scritto:
>
> Is there a way to increase the lowmem value for ppc. The MAX_LOW_MEM is
> defined as max 768 MB. But a value around 1.5 G works with no problem.
> But when i try to increase this value to 1520 or more, kernel complaints
> about no space for memory allocation when loading kernel modules.
> I do not want to use HIGHMEM config. What is the max lowmem value for a
> ppc system? What other setting are needed to use 1520 MB (or more) as
> lowmem .
> The ppc card has 2G on board memory. 2.4.22 kernel is used.
>
> Thanks
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With 32-bit arch you may not use more than 1GB to map the memory (minus
some space for some kernel operation). The value of 768MB was not there
by chance.
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Marco Stornelli
Embedded Software Engineer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 10:32 increase lowmem value for ppc Ruksen INANIR
2008-07-17 11:14 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
2008-07-17 11:21 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-17 11:22 ` Ruksen INANIR
2008-07-17 11:35 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-17 11:51 ` Ruksen INANIR
2008-07-17 12:05 ` Marco Stornelli
[not found] <mailman.2286.1216296226.2883.linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
2008-07-17 20:07 ` Siva Prasad
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