Re: Describing Physical RAM Map to Linux

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:59:15PM -0700, h h wrote:

> I have a very basic question -- When describing physical memory to the kernel 
> in 
> prom_init(), should we describe the physical memory region where kernel is 
> loaded or leave it out?  We are using add_memory_region() call to describe 
> physical memory to the kernel.  If we do describe the memory region where 
> kernel is loaded, how will kernel know not to use these pages for User 
> processes?

The kernel does this automatically.

> We are using 2.6.16 on Cavium/Octeon based platform. 

Which atm are only supported by Cavium's proprietary version of Linux ...

  Ralf