[PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix handling of memreserve if the range lands in highmem

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jan 10 06:30:44 EST 2008


Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> It looks like if the reserved area straddles the highmem boundary, it'll
>> only reserve the highmem portion.
> 
> Yeah, I thought about that.  I'm wondering if we should warn about 
> this.. its seems like a bad thing to do.

How is the firmware supposed to know where Linux sets its lowmem limit? 
  I think this is something that needs to be handled.

-Scott



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