[Pxc] Problems with allocator

[Robert Schwebel]

Hi!

Just a few words to introduce myself: I'm working for Zeutec
Opto-Elektronik, a small german company making optical measurement systems
(video and spectroscopy) for customers from chemical and other industry.

Today I finally got a PXC200 :-), so I did some first tests with this
driver. Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the allocator
module. I've set the LILO append variable to 126 MB (128 in system), but
the pxc_load script and the syslog claim not to find the memory.

In the beginning when I got the machine I had some problems with stability
which came from a BIOS bug. My BIOS obviously tells Linux the incorrect
memory size during the bootup sequence, so I had to add "mem=128M" to the
LILO line before. Afterwards everything was fine.

Now I had to change this line to get my two megabytes for allocator; my
only idea now is that allocator could use the same mechanisms to determine
how much RAM is available as the kernel was using before and therefore
fails. As I didn't have a closer look at the sources this could be
terribly wrong - so perhaps anyone of you does have an idea what the
reason for the failiure could be?

If it's needed I'll send more detailed log messages tomorrow.

Bye,
Robert
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