[PATCH] ARM: dts: fix split memory bank for SSDK5440
Tomasz Figa
tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 18:18:39 EST 2012
Hi Subash,
On Thursday 20 of December 2012 14:19:48 Subash Patel wrote:
> I would like to ask a question here. Do we need to have sparse even if
> the physical memory is contiguous? All the recent exynos machines come
> with physical banks without any holes, and I am thinking why not drop it
> and use flat mem instead. With LPAE these sections sizes wont be useful,
> and I dont like to keep different section sizes for different
> configurations. Any suggestions/opinions are very much helpful to me.
Since sparse memory is the only option available on Exynos currently in
kernel configuration, I assume there was a reason for it. However I am not
an expert in memory management, so please correct me if I am wrong.
Best regards,
Tomasz Figa
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