Re: how to use memory before kernel load address?

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

zhuzhenhua wrote:
> hello,all
>           i want to place my kernel loadaddr=0x81008000 and set
> EBASE=0x81000000, it workes.
>          but there is still some memory usable before 0x81000000, for
> example from 0x80100000 ~ 0x80200000

The obvious thing to do seems to set LOARADDR to 0x80208000.

>          i have try to pass param as mem=1M@1M mem=16M@16M  to the kernel,
> it seems only take the 0x8000000 ~ kernel_end as reserved.
>          is there any other options to set the memory useable? ( my kernel
> version is 2.6.14)
>          thanks for any hints

AFAIR the kernel assumes to occupy the lowest addresses of the usable RAM.


Thiemo