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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:49:43 +0200 Franck wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on port of linux 2.6.13. The target is a custom board > based on a MIPS cpu. There are several RAMs on this board whose > address are not contiguous and don't start to 0 . I currently succeed > to make linux detect one of these RAM (the biggest one) but I'd like > to make linux able to use the others...I'd like to use the other in a > particular way: I would like to be able to allocate memory only on a > single RAM when needed in kernel space, and in userspace I would be > able to export a RAM disk that uses memory on a single RAM. > > Could someone tell me how to do that or give me some pointers ? You can try the "memmap=" kernel boot options, although I don't know if or how well they apply to MIPS. Some of them apparently do apply, according to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt . --- ~Randy You can't do anything without having to do something else first. -- Belefant's Law - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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