Subject: Re: rtas instantiation when commandline contains mem

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:36:10 +1000

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Krill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the rtas instantiation (prom_init.c) doesn't work correctly if the
> kernel parameter "mem=" is used. The current code doesn't evaluate
> the kernel parameter which causes the issue that alloc_down
> allocates somewhere in the "real" memory space. So it can
> happen that the allocation space is above "mem=".
> 
> Commit 2babf5c2ec2f2d5de3e38d20f7df7fd815fd10c9 removes the
> evaluation of "mem=".

Ah yes, we don't constraint prom_init.c to mem=, only the kernel

Cheers,
Ben.