[PATCH 6/8] ARM i.MX5: Allow to increase max zone order

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Feb 28 05:18:53 EST 2011


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:04:03AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:00:27AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > default setting of 11 allows us to allocate at maximum
> > 2MB chunks of contiguous memory. For resolutions up to
> > 1920x1080 32bpp we need much more memory, so make zone
> > order configurable
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to add another 'default' in there for ARCH_MX5
> rather than expecting whoever configures the kernel to be able to work
> out the right value?

We can skip this patch for now. I needed it when I was playing with full hd
resolutions, but I never got them to work anyway due to the lack of
hardware.

Sascha


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