From wookey@wookware.org Thu Jul 22 16:16:22 2010 Received: from dream ([78.151.164.206] helo=dream.aleph1.co.uk) by stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObxVT-0007Au-TW for balloon@balloonboard.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:16:22 +0100 Received: from wookey by dream.aleph1.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObxVS-0002Jh-Tv for balloon@balloonboard.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:16:18 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:16:18 +0100 From: Wookey To: Balloon Message-ID: <20100722151618.GP30840@dream.aleph1.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Balloon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: Wookware User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 78.151.164.206 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: wookey@wookware.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=4.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk) Subject: [Balloon] more than 256Mb kernel support X-BeenThere: balloon@balloonboard.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Balloon List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:16:23 -0000 We've always had more than 256Mb RAM but not been able to make one kernel that would access it all on both >256Mb and <=256Mb builds. This patch http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/marex/pxa-linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9ee18023466d30e3847a77c82a1e776fb3cf02fc enables exactly that for another pxa270 board. I _think_ it's exactly what we need and is all of 10 lines. But I could be wrong. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/