[linux-yocto] [kernel-cache][PATCH] mti-malta32: enable CONFIG_HIGHMEM for qemumips to support up to 2GiB RAM

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2017-12-05 9:37 PM, Hongxu Jia wrote:
> OE uses qemumips to simulate a Malta board by default.
> 
> As upstream qemu introduced:
> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=94c2b6aff43cdfcfdfb552773a6b6b973a72ef0b
> 
> The Malta board can support up to 2GiB of RAM which should
> be able to boot a Linux kernel built with CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> enabled.
> 
> For mips, the `High Memory Support' only makes sense for the 32-bit
> kernel.

I've merged this for the 4.12/4.9 kernel (and master, so newer kernels
will get it as well).

Bruce

> 
> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
> ---
>   bsp/mti-malta32/mti-malta32-common.cfg | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/bsp/mti-malta32/mti-malta32-common.cfg b/bsp/mti-malta32/mti-malta32-common.cfg
> index 104caf2..d30a38d 100644
> --- a/bsp/mti-malta32/mti-malta32-common.cfg
> +++ b/bsp/mti-malta32/mti-malta32-common.cfg
> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ CONFIG_MIPS=y
>   CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA=y
>   CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R1=y
>   
> +CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
>   
>   CONFIG_MTD=y
>   CONFIG_MTD_BLKDEVS=y
>