On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:16:27AM +0200, Franck wrote:
> I'm working on a port of 32bit MIPS to a custom board with several
> large holes in the memory map. I would like to know the status of
> discontiguous memory on MIPS. I have noticed that ip27 Kconfig enables
> this feature but I don't see any MIPS generic code that handles it...
IP27 currently the only system that absolutely needs discontiguous
memory in order to work at all. A few other systems could make use of
discontiguous memory to reduce the waste of memory - the family of
Broadcom SB1 based systems comes to mind.
> Has anybody already done this ? If not then I'll try to work out what
> needed from the corresponding i386 code, but I'd appreciate any
> pointers.
See IP27. IP27 has one added extra complexity, it's a NUMA system but
you can ignore that.
Ralf
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