The memory is noncontiguous (12x10) having two 4MB chunks.
These patches for 2.2... I'm assuming they also exist for 2.4? Or aren't
they necessary for 2.4?
Lance F.
>===== Original Message From Hugo Fiennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>> I have been trying to get a copy of Linux running on a custom EP7211 board
>for
>> several days, with no luck. The board has 8MB of DRAM on the first bank
>> (0xc0000000), 2MB Flash at 0x00000000, and NO display, therefore I need it
>to
>> boot with a serial console.
>
>Have you got contiguous or segmented physical DRAM? The cirrus CPUs will
>give segmented physical RAM layouts if the DRAM used is not square array
>(eg, 10x10 or 11x11) - there were patches for 2.2 for segmented physical
>memory which you had to pass in a fragment table.
>
>You also have to ensure that the kernel is correctly copied into physical
>memory (with some DRAM configs, the segments are only 512k - ie, not enough
>to fit the entire kernel in).
>
>Hugo
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Lance Fetters
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Drexel IEEE Student Chapter
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