On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:04:47AM +0100, Alex Gonzalez wrote: > Our target experienced a kernel panic at startup when trying to access > memory above 512MB. > > Reading the list archives I found this thread with a proposed patch: > > http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2005-02/msg00115.html > > After applying the patch our target boots OK and appears to be able to > access the whole memory range without problems. > > Any idea why this patch didn't make it to the repository? Is it safe? It is - but according to Ibrahim's posting that you're pointing to it didn't solve his problem. What CPU are you using, btw? Ralf