Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:02:13 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Linux and sparse memory (was Re: Breaking the 64MB barrier) |
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, J.D. Bakker wrote: > At 8:13 AM +0200 19-10-1998, david parsons wrote: > > A brute-force memory scan might be useful, but it could get unhappily > > bitten by memory holes, and until Linux supports sparse memory, it's > > somewhat pointless to look above a memory hole. > > Is it true that the kernel has problems on machines/architectures where > main memory isn't contiguous ? That would be quite a downer for my plans to > build a Linux-running StrongARM board, as the DRAM banks on a SA-1100 have > pretty large holes in between (in physical address space).
Linux/m68k has supported memory with holes since many many years.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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