[U-Boot] [PATCHv2] omap3evm: Pass 'mem' argument to linux kernel

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 28 20:59:27 CEST 2011


Dear "Premi, Sanjeev",

In message <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB59302577A8A4D at dbde02.ent.ti.com> you wrote:
>
> These is the default value that gets the board booting up.
> The environment variable memsize can be overwritten to 256M
> by the boards that have more memory. So, there is no hard
> limit.

Why the hell would you ever want to do that?  U-Boot is capable of
auto-detecting the actual RAM sioze and passing correct information to
Linux, so why do you meddle with this?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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