[PATCH] powerpc: prpmc2800 - Don't trust documented memory size

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Tue Nov 6 12:59:17 EST 2007


On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> It turns out that the firmware on some PrPMC2800 processor modules
> initializes the memory controller for 512 MB even when there is more
> memory.  As a simple work around, set the amount of memory in the
> device tree passed to the kernel to the lesser of what the memory
> controller is set up for and the actual amount of memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer at mvista.com>
> ---

Paul, please ignore this patch.  There is still something wrong.

Sorry for the noise.

Mark



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