[PATCH] arm: socfpga: reserve the region at start of phys mem

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Wed Apr 30 10:01:36 PDT 2014


On 04/30/2014 06:17 PM, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why you aren't describing this reservation
> in devicetree using a /memreserve/ node?

Because the kernel is using memory at a specific address it did not
allocate. If the memory address where the second CPU come up could be
set then this node wouldn't be required and a simple kmalloc() would do
it, too.

Sebastian



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