On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:25:03AM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote: > Marc Dietrich wrote at Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:42 AM: > > On Monday 21 November 2011 14:44:07 Stephen Warren wrote: > > > There are no drivers in the kernel at present which can make use of the > > > memory reserved by /memreserve/, so there is no point reserving it. Remove > > > /memreserve/ to allow the user more memory. It's also unclear whether any > > > future driver would actually require /memreserve/, or allocate memory > > > through some other mechanism. > > > > while this gives 512 MB of usable memory on my AC100, it causes some funny > > pictures on the screen ;-) I guess our bootloader (fastboot) already setups > > the frambuffer there (and enables the backlight). I guess it shouldn't be > > harmful as nothing else writes to this memory area. Otherwise you may add that > > the bootloader (or the kernel cmdline supplied by the bootloader) is now > > responsible for the reservation to the description. > > Ah yes, I guess that would happen. I'm only testing with mainline U-Boot... > > I'd suggest this is acceptable fallout for now; I don't believe it will > cause any active problems, and as you say, you can get the bootloader to > set a command-line that excludes the frame-buffer if you want to solve > this. Do you agree? Agreed. It would make more sense to teach u-boot to reserve the memory. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
