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| author | Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> | 2012-11-11 16:11:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> | 2012-11-11 16:11:00 +0000 |
| commit | d9b89db3801e9750592c6fc617847528ff3ad34b (patch) | |
| tree | 1376c50d4c251ab09f730450cef7167b866aa474 /target/linux/ar7/patches-3.3 | |
| parent | 76553002d999d7d64a110002c44bb31361022080 (diff) | |
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free memory below kernel offset
Some bootloaders (e.g. PSPBoot on AC49x) have a load-offset, this frees that
memory region so it is usable for Linux.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <dgolle@allnet.de>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 34143
Diffstat (limited to 'target/linux/ar7/patches-3.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | target/linux/ar7/patches-3.3/200-free-mem-below-kernel-offset.patch | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/target/linux/ar7/patches-3.3/200-free-mem-below-kernel-offset.patch b/target/linux/ar7/patches-3.3/200-free-mem-below-kernel-offset.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..399822a1ca --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/ar7/patches-3.3/200-free-mem-below-kernel-offset.patch @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- a/arch/mips/ar7/memory.c ++++ b/arch/mips/ar7/memory.c +@@ -67,5 +67,11 @@ void __init prom_meminit(void) + + void __init prom_free_prom_memory(void) + { +- /* Nothing to free */ ++ /* adapted from arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c */ ++ unsigned long saddr = PHYS_OFFSET + PAGE_SIZE; ++ unsigned long eaddr = __pa_symbol(&_text); ++ ++ /* free memory between prom-record and kernel _text base */ ++ if (saddr < eaddr) ++ free_init_pages("prom memory", saddr, eaddr); + } |