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Date:   Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:21:08 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To:     "Gregory Clement" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
        "Paul Burton" <paulburton@kernel.org>,
        "Thomas Bogendoerfer" <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
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        "Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
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Cc:     "Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>,
        "Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>,
        "Alexandre Belloni" <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
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        "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] MIPS: support RAM beyond 32-bit
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On Wed, Oct 4, 2023, at 18:10, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> From: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>
>
> Support platforms where RAM is mapped beyond 32-bit.
>
> The kernel parameter ddr32_alias allows to setup the alias to point
> outside the first 4 GB of memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>

This needs a better explanation, and probably a rewrite.
Having to pass the memory address on the command line does
not sound like an appropriate way to boot the kernel, so
I think either this needs to be detected from the running kernel
itself, or passed through DT.

      Arnd