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From: Kedar Madineni <kedar@occamnetworks•com>
To: Khai Trinh <kqtrinh@yahoo•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: A few questions in embedded linux
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:04:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2853C9.3090607@occamnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030117181544.14483.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com


Khai Trinh wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> We are developing a PCI adapter card based out of the
> PPC440GP using MVL version 2.1 (kernel 2.4.17).
>
> I have several issues as listed below:
>
> 1. I'd like to reserve a 4M RAM space for DMA
> purposes. What I did was adding
> CONFIG_CMD_LINE="root=60M" since our board has 64MB of

mem=60M should be the option. Read the help.

> RAM. How do I know the system really now configure to
> be only 60MB? How then can I get a virtual addr to the
> 4MB DMA buffer? I did ioremap() given it the start of
> the 60MB RAM physical addr, but I get a bus error with
> the following message:

check and use high_memory ........



>
> Jan 1 00:01:42 199 kernel: __ioremap(): phys addr
> 3c00000 is RAM lr c000a57c
>
> 2. We have a list of files (ie: hhlfiles) required to
> build a RAM DISK that is non networked. What other
> files involved that we need to build a RAM DISK that
> has full network capability( ie: telnet, ftp, ping,
> rlogin, mount, etc...)?
>
> 3. When the ethernet driver comes up it does a bootp
> request to find its IP address.... How do we configure
> it such that it picks it up from a file or flash?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Khai
>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-17 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-17 18:15 A few questions in embedded linux Khai Trinh
2003-01-17 19:04 ` Kedar Madineni [this message]
2003-01-17 19:11 ` Dr. Craig Hollabaugh
2003-01-17 19:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <20030117223204.83501.qmail@web11507.mail.yahoo.com>
2003-01-17 22:47 ` Roland Dreier

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