Linux-ARM.Info - Linux on ARM - News and Help
Linux Support for ARM LPAE
Introduction - Classic ARM MMU - Classic ARM MMU Limitations
ARM LPAE Features - ARM LPAE and Virtualisation
Linux and ARM LPAE - Current Status and Future Developments
Introduction
- Early ARM systems required only a few MBs of RAM
- More and more complex smart-phones requiring 100s MB oreven GBs of RAM
- 32-bit physical addresses impose a 4GB hard limit
- It’s not all about RAM
- Peripherals
- Flash memory
- System ROM
- (Mobile) virtualisation requires even more RAM
- But not necessarily at the Guest OS level
- ARM LPAE support for Linux developed within ARM Ltd.
- First patches posted on LKML – October 2010
...
Created on Sunday, 22 January 2012 11:38
You might like
- OMAP4 Kernel Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu 11.04
- OpenJDK 6 ARM Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu OSes
- Linux won't be locked out of Windows 8 PCs, but FUD continues
- Microsoft requiring Secure Boot for ARM devices, hamstringing Linux
- Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult
Recommended
|
