On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:16:56PM +0000, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: > On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 12:45 -0600, Xianghua Xiao wrote: > > where does it mandate 3G/1G in Android? > > > > we're planning to use 2G/2G split as well, but I'm unaware of the > > 3G/1G requirement in Android, seems odd to me. > > I think there are some user libraries (bionic?, dalvik?) which are hard > coded to the addresses just below 0xc000000. Perhaps this is > configurable, I don't know. I just know that when trying to bring up > Linaro Android on Versatile Express I had problems until I realised the > 3G/1G split was needed; other Android people then agreed that kernels > need to use that memory arrangement. > > Can any Android experts confirm this?
I think it is a fairly hardcoded assumption. I think at one point the codeaurora.org Android source supported a flag to enable android to work on the 2G split. I don't know if it still is present, though. David -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
