From: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>
To: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mips_malta: provide ememsize env variable to kernels
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 16:34:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55649299.1030404@imgtec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432560064-10653-1-git-send-email-paul.burton@imgtec.com>
On 25/05/2015 14:21, Paul Burton wrote:
> Commit 94c2b6aff43c (mips_malta: support up to 2GiB RAM) provided
> support for using over 256MB of RAM with the MIPS Malta board, including
> capping the memsize variable that QEMUs pseudo-bootloader provides to
> the kernel at 256MB in order to match YAMON. It didn't however provide
> the ememsize variable which kernels supporting memory outside of the
> unmapped address spaces (ie. EVA or highmem) may use to determine the
> true size of the RAM present in the system.
>
> Set ememsize to the size of RAM so that such kernels may use all
> available memory without the user having to manually specifying its size
> & location.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> Cc: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-26 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-25 13:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mips_malta: provide ememsize env variable to kernels Paul Burton
2015-05-26 15:34 ` Leon Alrae [this message]
2015-05-26 22:45 ` Aurelien Jarno
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