Subject: Re: bce(4) and memory > 1GB problem
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/18/2007 07:59:01
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:19:47PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:26:11AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> >   =20
> >    Thanks for pointing that out.
> >=20
> >=20
> > good stuff.  i plan to test and commit this in the next couple of days.
> > i will probably add a __HAVE_BUS_DMATAG_SUBREGION (anyone have a better
> > name??) define to show this function is available to MI code, and
> > change bce(4) to barf if this is not present.
>=20
> This probably needs some work for Xen, I can have a look next week-end.
> This shouldn't be hard to implement.

I can happily test both native and Xen cases on my laptop.  At the
moment, if I need to use bce, I use xen to limit the overall memory
available to the system to 1g.  I was hoping that just restricting
dom0 would be enough, but they get placed from the top down.

> > thanks!
>=20
> Seconded :)

Thirded, wholeheartedly!

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Dan.

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