On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:34 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Robert, >> >> So whats up with the LPAE kernel versions ? From what I've read this >> "extension" is only for Cortex A15 ( 40 bit addressing ), and typically / >> always this only matters for systems with more than 4GB( addressable ) RAM. >> >> The beaglebone black only has 512MB, so is moot, and the X15 from what I >> understand will only have 2GB RAM ? Plus it's not a "bone" > > Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE) is the main identifier, but > the Cortex-A7/A12/A15/A17 also have hardware virturalization support.
I should also mention... Just like non-pae and pae x86 hardware.. a non-lpae device will not boot with an lpae enabled kernel. Thus we have a special lpae kernel. ;) Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
