On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:59:15PM -0700, h h wrote: > I have a very basic question -- When describing physical memory to the kernel in > prom_init(), should we describe the physical memory region where kernel is loaded or leave it out? We are using add_memory_region() call to describe physical memory to the kernel. If we do describe the memory region where kernel is loaded, how will kernel know not to use these pages for User processes? The kernel does this automatically. > We are using 2.6.16 on Cavium/Octeon based platform. Which atm are only supported by Cavium's proprietary version of Linux ... Ralf
