Re: how to use memory before kernel load address?

[zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com>]

On 11/20/07, Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> wrote:
> 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
>

i have resolve it, by modify as follow:

in arch/mips/kernel/setup.c

static inline void bootmem_init(void)
.....
        if (curr_pfn < start_pfn)                    // just change the 
judgement
                        curr_pfn = start_pfn;
                 ....
                /* Register lowmem ranges */
                free_bootmem(PFN_PHYS(curr_pfn), PFN_PHYS(size));

thanks all.

zzh