Erez Doron schrieb:
>
> hi
>
> I'm looking for a way to make a ramdisk which is not erased on reboot
> this is for use with ipaq/linux.
>
> i tought of booting with mem=32m and map a block device to the rest of
> the 32M ram i have.
>
> the probelm is that giving mem=32m to the kernel will cause the kernel
> to map only the first 32m of physical memory to virtual one, so using
> __pa(ptr) on the top 32m causes a kernel oops.
>
> any idea ?
>
a MTD is the way to go, which uses the "reserved" mem area.
I assume that the RAM is battery backed
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