Re: Making use of the BigRamPlus?
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann <ij@2013.bluespice.org> wrote:
> Currently there's no sparsemem support in the m68k kernel yet, so the question is: how to make use of the BigRamPlus now?
>
> A possible use case would be as swap space, but z2ram shows this during boot:
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> [ 29.040000] Z2RAM: using 0K Zorro II RAM and 1152K Chip RAM (Total 1152K)
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> I already built a kernel with "Use one physical chunk of memory only" as stated on http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/z2ram.html but apparently this doesn't help as I expect the 256M to pop up in z2ram listing.
BigRamplus is Z3, not Z2, so it won't show up.
You can try CONFIG_MTD_PHRAM to create a block device and use it as sawp.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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