Hello,
I have uClinux 2.4.19 on a linux/m68knommu/platform/5272 CPU that has
Any attempt to use RAM past the 8 Mbtyes limits hangs the OS. I can't invest the time to upgrade to a new kernel. Do anyone know in which version or patch this problem was fixed?
Any help would be apprecited.
Mike
Mike,
Which memory allocator are you using ?
Any more detail on "hangs the OS" ?
assuming it's a problem in that kernel version and not something else...
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Maybe you need to increase INITRD size into kernel settings ?
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The config.uClibc file in my vendor direcotry contains the line: MALLOC = malloc I did try malloc-930716 and malloc-simple, it did not solve the problem.
The decoded kysmoops details are as follows:
We are not using INITRD. The boot loader we use does successfully use the entire 16MBytes of RAM before uClinux is running.
Kind regards,
Mike
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