[PATCH 12/13] ARM: LPC32XX: architecture header files

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Feb 3 15:44:47 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:20:01PM +0100, Kevin Wells wrote:
> > 
> > > +#define VMALLOC_END	(PAGE_OFFSET + 0x10000000)
> > grepping shows that defining VMALLOC_END based on PAGE_OFFSET is usual,
> > but I wonder why you don't just
> 
> The maximum addressable DRAM sizing is 256MB when fully populated. It seemed
> the right size. 0xF0000000 works too though, I have no problems changing it.
> 
> > 
> > 	#define VMALLOC_END 0xF0000000
> > 
The size of the vmalloc area has nothing to do with RAM.  See
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/memory.txt

Best regards
Uwe

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