[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Read size of installed memory from LinuxBIOS table

Torsten Duwe duwe at lst.de
Fri Oct 12 01:40:35 CEST 2007


On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Jens Freimann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this patch makes OFW read the size of installed RAM from the LinuxBIOS
> table instead of fetching it from mem-info-pa.

This nicely replaces my ugly hack. The only  2 qestions remaining are how a 
loaded Linux kernel gets the memory info: via LB-Tables or OFW devtree? 
Preferably both possible ways, I'd say. Weren't there patches on LKML ages 
ago? And the other is about memory > 4GB: lb-memsize accepts 64-bit 
addresses?

But good work nonetheless!

Acked-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe at lst.de>



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