Re: 1 GB RAM with RM9000 SOC

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

Anoop P.A. wrote:
> Hi list,
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> Any of you successfully used >512MB ram with MIPS SOC's.
Does Cavium Octeon count as a MIPS SOC?  If so, then yes.

I have many boards with both 2GB and 4GB.  All of them Linux just fine 
when using all available RAM.
> I have a
> requirement where I have to use 1 GB ram with RM9000 based SOC. 
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> I have enabled 64 Bit support and so far it is working with 512 MB of
> RAM. How ever if I increase memory beyond 512MB I am getting kernel
> panic.
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>  I am adding memory region from 0x00 add_memory_region(0 ,0x40000000 ,
> BOOT_MEM_RAM). (PMON maps RAM from 0x0 to 0x40000000)  Am I wrong here?
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> It will be great if you can give some suggestion /point me to a working
> implementation. I am using 2.6.18 kernel.
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> Thanks
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> Anoop