Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2008-07-17

Re: increase lowmem value for ppc

From: Siva Prasad <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-17 20:08:20

Marco Stornelli wrote:
Upgrading to a 2.6.x kernel may solve the problem, but it needs a lot
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effort. Does 2.6.x kernel support 2G physical memory?
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It's the same. Some architecture have 36-bit addressing, but I don't=20
know if the latest kernel has the support for this feature for powerpc.
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I think recently there were some patches with 2.6.26-rcx to support
36-bit addressing and changed the addressing to phys_addr_t type from
unsigned long, and few other changed. I think this should be available
starting 2.6.26 version.
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