Hi Geert,
> > What is the reason for dropping chunks that are residing below the fisrst
> > one,
> > in paging_init ??
>
> `git blame' tells you that code was added by
>
> commit 12d810c1b8c2b913d48e629e2b5c01d105029839
> Author: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu May 31 00:40:54 2007 -0700
>
> m68k: discontinuous memory support
>
> Probably discontigmem supports only increasing physical addresses of the
> multiple memory chunks :-(
Looks like it... We can fix the bootstrap, but I fear that won't change a thing
(I could not see where the early startup code would refer to the memory chunks
at all).
> But the newer sparsemem generic model may support it, see
> Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
Thanks, I'll have a look at that.
Michael
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