[RFC PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Increase CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE to 64K

Javier Martinez Canillas javier at osg.samsung.com
Mon Oct 19 05:06:17 PDT 2015


Hello Russell,

On 10/19/2015 01:51 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 01:48:13PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello Alim,
>>
>> On 10/19/2015 12:48 PM, Alim Akhtar wrote:
>>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE is currently set to 8K, which is a bit on the
>>> smaller side, lets bump it up to 64K so that a bigger RAM_DISK can
>>> be used with defconfig.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar at samsung.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> I agree that 8KiB is too small and that should be bumped, I'm also
>> not sure what the best size would be but 64KiB sounds reasonable
>> to me. So for this patch:
> 
> It's _not_ 8KiB or 64KiB.
> 
> config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
>         int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
> 
> It's 8MiB or 64MiB - the value you place here is in units of 1024 bytes.
> 

Err, right. I got confused by the patch's commit message, sorry about
that and thanks for the clarification.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America



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