Question about multi-bank memory usage in ARM platform

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue May 10 02:48:38 EDT 2011


Hi,

	A minimum of respect will to put your name in the e-mail
	and hide the chip and other information will not convince people to
	help you.

	my 0.02$

Best Regards,
J.
On 13:45 Tue 10 May     , os user wrote:
> Hi Russell and list,
> 
> I have a question about multi-bank memory usage in ARM platform (arm926).
> 
> I have two banks of SDRAM, one is  64M at 0x20000000, another is
> 64M at 0x60000000. I tried to use both of them in Linux (2.6.38). I hope
> the kernel will print
> 
> Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
> Memory: 126236KB available (xxx code, xxx data, 112K init, 0K highmem)
> 
> So I tried passing 'mem=64M at 0x20000000 mem=64M at 0x60000000' to Kernel
> command line.
> 
> >From the kernel message, I failed to achieve my goal. The kernel says,
> 
> Ignoring RAM at 60000000-63ffffff (vmalloc region overlap).
> 
> Could you or someone else please give me a hint how to deal with this?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> BR
> 
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