2009-06-15 11:08:58 Physical system RAM

Nikolay Chokoev (IRELAND)

Message: 75739

Hi,

I try to use "Physical system RAM"

CONFIG_MTD_PHRAM=y

bootargs 'root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw mem=21M max_mem=32M$# phram=rdisk,21Mi,11Mi clkin_hz=24000000 earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600 console=tty0 console=ttyBF0,57600'

but it seems not working. There is no MTD device under /dev and:

root:/> cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

root:/>

Regards,

Nikolay

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2009-06-15 11:13:58 Re: Physical system RAM

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 75740

did you verify you passed the command line properly ? did you review the kernel log ?

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2009-06-15 11:32:52 Re: Physical system RAM

Nikolay Chokoev (IRELAND)

Message: 75741

it's passed properly. The /ver/log is empty. No kernel log.

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2009-06-15 11:37:09 Re: Physical system RAM

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 75742

there is always a kernel log. read `dmesg`.

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2009-06-15 11:46:22 Re: Physical system RAM

Nikolay Chokoev (IRELAND)

Message: 75743

root:/> dmesg

Linux version 2.6.30-ADI-2010R1-pre-svn6721 (root@dlnx764) (gcc version 4.1.2 (A

DI svn)) #67 Mon Jun 15 16:24:59 IST 2009

console [early_BFuart0] enabled

early printk enabled on early_BFuart0

Board Memory: 32MB

Kernel Managed Memory: 21MB

Memory map:

fixedcode = 0x00000400-0x00000490

text = 0x00001000-0x000ea700

rodata = 0x000ea700-0x00138184

bss = 0x00139000-0x00148e60

data = 0x00148e60-0x0015a000

stack = 0x00158000-0x0015a000

init = 0x0015a000-0x0044a000

available = 0x0044a000-0x013ff000

DMA Zone = 0x01400000-0x01500000

Hardware Trace Active and Enabled

Boot Mode: 3

Compiled for ADSP-BF527 Rev 0.1

Warning: Compiled for Rev 1, but running on Rev 2

Blackfin Linux support by http://blackfin.uclinux.org/

Processor Speed: 528 MHz core clock and 132 MHz System Clock

boot memmap: 000000000044a000 - 00000000013ff000 (usable)

On node 0 totalpages: 5119

free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 001570ec, node_mem_map 0044c000

DMA zone: 40 pages used for memmap

DMA zone: 0 pages reserved

DMA zone: 5079 pages, LIFO batch:0

NOMPU: setting up cplb tables

Instruction Cache Enabled for CPU0

Data Cache Enabled for CPU0 (write-back)

Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping off. Total pages: 5079

Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw mem=21M max_mem=32M$# phram=rdisk,21

Mi,11Mi clkin_hz=24000000 earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600 console=tty0 console=tt

yBF0,57600

NR_IRQS:119

Configuring Blackfin Priority Driven Interrupts

PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes)

Console: colour dummy device 80x25

console [tty0] enabled

console handover: boot [early_BFuart0] -> real [ttyBF0]

Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

Kernel managed physical pages: 5119

Memory available: 15792k/21504k RAM, (3008k init code, 933k kernel code, 447k da

ta, 1024k dma, 296k reserved)

Calibrating delay loop... 1052.67 BogoMIPS (lpj=2105344)

Security Framework initialized

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

Blackfin Scratchpad data SRAM: 4 KB

Blackfin L1 Data A SRAM: 16 KB (16 KB free)

Blackfin L1 Data B SRAM: 16 KB (16 KB free)

Blackfin L1 Instruction SRAM: 48 KB (42 KB free)

net_namespace: 296 bytes

NET: Registered protocol family 16

Blackfin DMA Controller

ad7160eval_init(): registering device resources

bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

Setting up Blackfin MMR debugfs

msgmni has been set to 30

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)

io scheduler cfq registered

Serial: Blackfin serial driver

bfin-uart.1: ttyBF0 at MMIO 0xffc00400 (irq = 29) is a BFIN-UART

brd: module loaded

loop: module loaded

slram: not enough parameters.

bfin-spi bfin-spi.0: Blackfin on-chip SPI Controller Driver, Version 1.0, regs_b

ase@ffc00500, dma channel@7

i2c-bfin-twi i2c-bfin-twi.0: Blackfin BF5xx on-chip I2C TWI Contoller, regs_base

@ffc01400

mmc_spi spi0.0: ASSUMING 3.2-3.4 V slot power

mmc_spi spi0.0: SD/MMC host mmc0, no DMA, no WP, no poweroff

Freeing unused kernel memory: 3008k freed

dma_alloc_init: dma_page @ 0x0015a000 - 256 pages at 0x01400000

mmc_spi spi0.0: requested mode not fully supported

mmc_spi spi0.0: can't change chip-select polarity

mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch. assuming write-enable.

mmc0: new SD card on SPI

mmcblk0: mmc0:0000 481 MiB

mmcblk0: p1

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2009-06-15 11:55:50 Re: Physical system RAM

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 75744

are you sure you enabled the right driver ? perhaps you enabled slram and not phram.

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2009-06-15 11:59:01 Re: Physical system RAM

Nikolay Chokoev (IRELAND)

Message: 75745

It is PHRAM...

.config - Linux Kernel v2.6.30 Configuration

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

┌─────────────────── Self-contained MTD device drivers ───────────────────┐

│ Arrow keys navigate the menu. <Enter> selects submenus --->. │

│ Highlighted letters are hotkeys. Pressing <Y> includes, <N> excludes, │

│ <M> modularizes features. Press <Esc><Esc> to exit, <?> for Help, </> │

│ for Search. Legend: [*] built-in [ ] excluded <M> module < > │

│ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │

│ │ < > Support for AT45xxx DataFlash │ │

│ │ < > Support most SPI Flash chips (AT26DF, M25P, W25X, ...) │ │

│ │ < > Uncached system RAM │ │

│ │ <*> Physical system RAM │ │

│ │ < > Test driver using RAM │ │

│ │ < > MTD using block device │ │

│ │ *** Disk-On-Chip Device Drivers *** │ │

│ │ < > M-Systems Disk-On-Chip 2000 and Millennium (DEPRECATED) │ │

│ │ < > M-Systems Disk-On-Chip Millennium-only alternative driver (DE│ │

│ │ < > M-Systems Disk-On-Chip Millennium Plus │ │

│ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │

├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤

│ <Select> < Exit > < Help > │

└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

and .config:

CONFIG_MTD_PHRAM=y

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2009-06-16 15:17:33 Re: Physical system RAM

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 75848

works fine for me:

root:/> insmod phram.ko phram=rdisk,21Mi,11Mi

root:/> grep rdisk /proc/mtd

mtd5: 00b00000 00001000 "rdisk"

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2009-06-17 08:58:20 Re: Physical system RAM

Nikolay Chokoev (IRELAND)

Message: 75886

when I build it as module it seems to work (despite the error "phram: illegal device length" after insmod).

root:/> cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00b00000 00001000 "rdisk"

root:/>

,but when I build it into the kernel, it doesn't work for me.

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2009-06-17 09:35:22 Re: Physical system RAM

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 75890

that's because you probably passed it wrong. it is a *module* paramater, not a common kernel paramater. module paramaters must be prefixed properly. read the documentation:

linux-2.6.x/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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2009-06-17 10:14:13 Re: Physical system RAM

Nikolay Chokoev (IRELAND)

Message: 75896

Thanks!

Now the phram module returns an error:

Kernel command line: root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro rootdelay=1 mem=21M max_mem=32M$# phram.phram=rdisk,22Mi,9Mi clkin_hz=24000000 earlyprintk=serial,uar

t0,57600 console=tty0 console=ttyBF0,57600

phram: out of memory

Tried different 'phram=' parameters... and 'memmap=10M$21M' also.

The same seems to work if not built into the kernel...