Hi Greg, I am specifying the memory as part of command line parameter "mem=". I know only that what ever amount specify against "mem=" will be a kernel memory and rest is used for the drivers. If I have not answered you correctly, please give me a chance to understand... thanks, Prabhu On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:04:09PM +0530, Prabhu Chawandi wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am using MIPS processor, with 256 MB RAM. currently I am using 128 >> M for drivers and 128 M for Kernel. I tried to allocate more memory >> for Drivers, >> surprisingly I got crash when I reduced kernel memory to 110 M. My >> debugging took me to USB controller, which was not reset in >> bootloader. >> >> I am not having any clue, why it didnt crash with 128 M ? How reducing >> memory for kernel bringing it up ? > > Perhaps your drivers really needed that much memory. How are you > "splitting" memory up between drivers and the kernel when the drivers > and kernel all share the same memory areas? > > good luck, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
