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Re: Multiple Memory Chunks



On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann
<ij@2013.bluespice.org> wrote:
> On 2013-08-16 10:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann
>> <ij@2013.bluespice.org> wrote:
>
>
>>> Can't the MMU map the memory as needed?
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken, the MMU is only used in the SPARSEMEM case.
>> Currently we use DISCONTIGMEM.
>
>
> Yes, currently, but I thought using SPARSEMEM would make sense in the
> future?

Indeed. It would already make sense now, to use your mainboard RAM.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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