[U-Boot-Users] reserving RAM

Ramasamy C c.ramasamy at gdatech.co.in
Mon Oct 22 23:00:03 CEST 2007


> Hi,
> I am using a freescale eval board with 256M DDR, and want to bootup
> the Linux kernel with only a part of this memory,
> I tried setting the memsize env variable to (equivalent of this value
> in hex), no use.
> then i appened bootargs with "boot=128m", and saveenv.
> Linux still boots without the appended bootargs, any ideas what is causing
> this?
>
Probably you should look into
"linux-KERNEL_ROOT/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt" for passing boot
arguments to the kernel. The correct option would be to use "mem=xyzM" in
bootargs.

Ramasamy C




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