Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, gart: Don't enforce GART aperture lower-boundby alignment

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Mon Apr 18 2011 - 14:30:35 EST


On 04/18/2011 06:45 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> This patch changes the allocation of the GART aperture to
> enforce only natural alignment instead of aligning it on
> 512MB. This big alignment was used to force the GART
> aperture to be over 512MB.

Now, memblock is used instead of bootmem, so we don't need big alignment anymore.

> This is enforced by using 512MB
> as the lower-bound address in the allocation range.
>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

Yinghai
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