[PATCH] ARM: ux500: Enable HIGHMEM in the u8540 defconfig

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Jun 4 05:19:39 EDT 2013


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:

> In order to utilise all of the memory located on ux500 based devices
> we have to enable HIGHMEM. Without it the kernel truncates memory down
> to what's left after the PAGE_OFFSET has been applied, which doesn't
> leave an awful lot, especially if we're running large rootfs' such
> as full Linux desktop distributions or Android.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>

Patch applied, but I renamed the topic arch to u8500
as the defconfig is named as such.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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