[parisc-linux] not freeing initmem and power button

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:23:19 +0200


On Monday 15 April 2002 19:35, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:32:46PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> > Older kernels just didn't reported it, but all had this problem.
> > We're not freeing the memory yet, since we still have one or more
> > __init or __initdata too much in our kernel. Just ignore it for now.
>
> Do you recall what config failed when we did try to free the memory?  I
> tested recently with B180 and A500, both worked fine with freeing of
> memory enabled.  IIRC the origianl problem was that init crashed on
> boot...
>
> Cheers,
>   Richard

Hi Richard,

unfortunately I don't know which config it was. AFAIR it also never 
happened to me, but it did for grant or bame. Maybe they know more ?

Greetings,
Helge