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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mips_malta: provide ememsize env variable to ke
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Leon Alrae |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mips_malta: provide ememsize env variable to kernels |
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Tue, 26 May 2015 16:34:49 +0100 |
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On 25/05/2015 14:21, Paul Burton wrote:
> Commit 94c2b6aff43c (mips_malta: support up to 2GiB RAM) provided
> support for using over 256MB of RAM with the MIPS Malta board, including
> capping the memsize variable that QEMUs pseudo-bootloader provides to
> the kernel at 256MB in order to match YAMON. It didn't however provide
> the ememsize variable which kernels supporting memory outside of the
> unmapped address spaces (ie. EVA or highmem) may use to determine the
> true size of the RAM present in the system.
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> Set ememsize to the size of RAM so that such kernels may use all
> available memory without the user having to manually specifying its size
> & location.
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> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <address@hidden>
> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>
> Cc: Leon Alrae <address@hidden>
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Reviewed-by: Leon Alrae <address@hidden>