On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:11:00PM -0800, David C. Chiu wrote: > Thanks for the response. Would you be so kind to be more specific? I did > a coarse search of the kernel documentation subdirectory contents, but > fail to find what you are referring to (although I have been referred to > as the seeing blind in the past.)
Sorry, I don't recall exactly where/what it is. I do remember there being a few projects which required a large chunk of contigious memory, and having to do mem=XXm in 2.0 (2.2?) but in 2.2 (2.4?) there's kernel calls you can make to get a large contig section of memory, if it exists. > The basic goal was to have a singular location in which buffer size is > specified so that future changes doesn't turn into a nightmare, and > computing the delta between mem=xxx and actual memory size seem logical, > but the present method employed by yours truely felt ugly and... so > wrong. ^^; Well, if you pass along mem=xxx, then the kernel will not try and figure ou the actual memory size, unless you do some hacking around. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
