From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxGtd-0007W2-TU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 11:36:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxGtZ-0004w8-SV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 11:36:01 -0400 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:60016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxGtZ-0004w3-Ju for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 11:35:57 -0400 Message-ID: <55649299.1030404@imgtec.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 16:34:49 +0100 From: Leon Alrae MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1432560064-10653-1-git-send-email-paul.burton@imgtec.com> In-Reply-To: <1432560064-10653-1-git-send-email-paul.burton@imgtec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mips_malta: provide ememsize env variable to kernels List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Burton , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Aurelien Jarno 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 > Cc: Aurelien Jarno > Cc: Leon Alrae > --- Reviewed-by: Leon Alrae