On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:22:06AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to get am MPC834x system running that has 256MBytes of NOR > flash connected. > > The physmap flash driver is failing to ioremap() that amount of space, > while on a similar system with 128Mbytes of flash, there are no > problems. > > Is this a known limitation of ioremap() on the ppc architecture, or > specifically the MPC834x family, and is there any (hopefully easy) way > to increase this limit?
The answer is "it depends". It depends on the amount of system memory you have. By default, your system memory is mapped at 0xc0000000, leaving not enough space for vmalloc allocations to grab 256MB for the ioremap (and avoid the fixed virtual mapping in the high virtual address area). See the "Advanced setup" menu. Normally, you can set "Set custom kernel base address" to 0xa0000000 safely. That will give you an additional 256MB of vmalloc space. On arch/powerpc, you'll also have to set "Size of user task space" to 0x80000000 or 0xa0000000. -Matt _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded