On Sat, 2018-06-09 at 16:23 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Debian uses a Marvell specific kernel, so we don't need to worry > about > > the impact on other platforms. > > That i was not sure about. Are there any plans to merge all ARM v5 > kernels together?
Not AFAIK, marvell is the only armv5 flavour left in Debian and armel is well past the point where more are likely to be added. > > > Or do we need to figure out why highmem breaks on Kirkwood? > > > > I guess it would be nice from an upstream PoV to know what was going on > > -- in particular in case there were to be other more subtle side > > effects or corruption possible. > > I might be able to hack together a 3.5/0.5G split, so forcing some of > the 512MB of RAM i have in my Kirkwood into highmem. Hopefully i can > then reproduce the issue. A 3.5/0.5 split is a good idea, hadn't occurred to me. None of my QNAP boxes have more than 512M either. Ian.
