Re: mips32 kernel memory mapping

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> There are still improvments to be made for BCM1250 support.  Somebody
> thought scattering the first 1GB of memory through the lowest 4GB of
> physical address space like a three year old his toys over the floor
> was a good thing ...  The resulting holes in the memory map are wasting
> significant amounts of memory for unused memory; the worst case number
> that is reached for 64-bit kernel on a system with > 1GB of RAM is 96MB!

Perhaps you want to start using virtually mapped zones, like m68k?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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