[PATCH 1/2] pxa/vpac270: Enable SparseMEM for 256 MB of RAM

Jonathan McDowell noodles at earth.li
Tue May 4 16:55:50 EDT 2010


On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:57:08PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> This patch enables SparseMEM for the Voipac PXA270 board. To work
> around the PHYS_OFFSET being set to 0xa0000000 and disallowing us to
> map the other partition at 0x80000000, the physical-to-virtual mapping
> of SDRAM was altered and the partition at 0x80000000 was moved to
> 0x10000000 in virtual memory (past the first SDRAM partition). As the
> Voipac PXA270 is probably the only PXA270 device which utilizes 256 MB
> of RAM, adding the following code into memory.h seems much less
> painful than tinkering with PHYS_OFFSET.
...
> +/*
> + * Voipac PXA270/PXA270M is probably the only board in the world with PXA27x
> + * that uses more than 128MB or SDRAM (256MB in the 'max configuration'). This

I think you mean "of SDRAM" here and the Balloon3 can be configured with
up to 512M (I'm pretty sure there were a few boards that had 768M on
them too, but I can't find any confirmation of that) and is a PXA270
board.

J.

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