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Re: EDB7312 - Linux booting
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 04:04, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > Index: hal/arm/arch/current/src/redboot_linux_exec.c
> [snip]
> > - params->u.mem.start = CYGARC_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS(CYGMEM_REGION_ram);
> > /* Round up so there's only one bit set in the memory size.
> > * Don't double it if it's already a power of two, though.
> > */
> > params->u.mem.size = 1<<hal_msbindex(CYGMEM_REGION_ram_SIZE);
> > if (params->u.mem.size < CYGMEM_REGION_ram_SIZE)
> > params->u.mem.size <<= 1;
> > + params->u.mem.start = CYGARC_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS(CYGMEM_REGION_ram);
> > + // Linux doesn't like physical RAM to start on odd boundary
> > + params->u.mem.start &= ~(params->u.mem.size-1);
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but why is this a power of two? Physical memory may
> not be a power of two certainly.
Ask Mark, he wrote this [I think] :-)
I was just fixing a confusion here with the EDB7xxx in that it's
really muddy when it computes the base address of RAM.
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