[PATCH] ARM: dts: fix split memory bank for SSDK5440

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Thu Dec 20 19:43:39 EST 2012


Tomasz Figa wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Hmm...yeah, as Subash said, it's no problem to disable sparsemem on EXYNOS
for now but memory hole can be existing on upcoming EXYNOS such as S5PV210
so keeping sparsemem would be better I think.

- Kukjin




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