On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 14:30, CEVAN Ondrej <ondrej.ce...@frequentis.com> wrote: > If the upper memory limit is reduced at booting by using the kernel command > line parameter "mem" is there a way how this memory limit could be increased > at some later point of kernel execution? In other words, if I exclude the > upper part of system memory from kernel's use at boot time, can I reclaim it > back at some later point? > > Particularly I am interested if this would work on the PowerPC and ARM > architecture, or is it not architecture depending?
You can use memory hotplugging to add the memory later. As this has been used on e.g. PS3, it should work on PowerPC. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html