From: Frank <frannk_m1@yahoo•com>
To: Clint Thomas <cthomas@Soneticom•com>, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Define Linux system memory
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:57:06 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <958023.73009.qm@web32203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C02138692C13C4BB675FE7EA2409529261209@bluefin.Soneticom.local>
--- Clint Thomas <cthomas@Soneticom•com> wrote:
> To anybody who has done this before or understands how to do
> this, I was
> wondering if you know how to "tell" the kernel how much memory
> there is
> in the system. An example would be if I have 512MB of RAM, but
> only want
> the system to know that there is about 500MB in RAM, so that
> 12MB does
> not exist to the OS/kernel. Would this require mucking about
> in U-boot?
> or can I just define this in the kernel source? Thanks
>
> Clinton Thomas
On the kernel command line passed by u-boot:
mem=500M
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-20 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 16:52 Define Linux system memory Clint Thomas
2006-12-20 16:57 ` Frank [this message]
2006-12-20 18:02 ` Clint Thomas
2006-12-21 5:58 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-12-21 7:05 ` Parav Pandit
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