On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 09:48:47PM +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> 2018-06-02 18:55 GMT+03:00 Ian Campbell <[email protected]>:
> > You need to append a dtb and then encode in u-boot's uImage format.
> > e.g.
> >
> > cat arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-ts419-6281.dtb > x
> > sudo mkimage -A arm -T kernel -O linux -C none -a 0x8000 -e 0x8000 -d x
> > uImage
>
> Thank you! Now it's all coming back to me, I'm not sure if I've played
> with these since Neo FreeRunner times.
>
> So the good news is that with this kernel
> kernel-kirkwood-ts219-6282-split3gopt from
> https://people.debian.org/~timo/qnap/ (initrd from
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/qnap/ts-21x/)
> I'm getting full 1GB RAM without the errors!
Cool. Thanks for testing.
Now, the question is, is this an O.K. workaround? Or do we need to
figure out why highmem breaks on Kirkwood?
Andrew
