On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:25:32AM +0200, Michael Hunold wrote:

Hello Russell,

on 04/29/2011 04:27 PM Russell King - ARM Linux said the following:

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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:50:37PM +0200, Michael Hunold wrote:

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Now I have a new panel with a higher resolution and more bits-per-pixel.
I want to use double-buffering with DirectFB and so my framebuffer size
exceeds 4Mb.

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You could try this patch.  It steals the memory for the coherent and
writecombine memory at boot time, so MAX_ORDER no longer comes into the
problem.  You may need to define CONSISTENT_WC_SIZE and CONSISTENT_DMA_SIZE
appropriately to gain sufficient memory.  Note that the sum of those two
must be a multiple of 2MB, and individually must be a multiple of 1MB.

I really want to try this patch out, but unfortunately, I don't know to
which tree I can apply it to. :-(

You may need 516295e (ARM: pgtable: add pud-level code) from a later
kernel as well then.