Am 21.02.2016 um 22:21 schrieb Dirk Müller: > Next problem I noticed that we have enabled "CMA" in our kernel config > for arm (it is disabled on other architectures), which seems to take > away quite some memory for unpacking the kiwi initrd. with > artificially lowering the memory to Raspberry Pi 1 levels I can run > out of memory while unpacking initrd, which is bad. > > Any objection to disabling that ? I couldn't quite figure out why we > want it to be enabled, as usual the git commit messages that enabled > it are sparse :(
It used to be necessary for Exynos based Chromebooks and Snapdragon based boards among others. The latter should no longer be the case with IOMMU, but I recall on the Chromebooks we can't enable Exynos IOMMU so we still need CMA there. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton; HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
