Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 1997 14:50:14 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Reserving memory and /proc/memzones |
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Hi,
> This kernel patch is a modified version of Michel Lespinasse's > (walken@via.ecp.fr) /proc/memzones patch. It includes the ability to > exclude > memory addresses from use by marking the memory as reserved. This is > useful > if you have a slightly defective SIMM, which I happen to have. Since I > had > the kernel mark the bad memory as reserved, I have had no sig 11 errors > while compiling the kernel or anything else. The new kernel command-line > option is: > > reservemem=<start addr>,<size>,... > > Up to five blocks of memory can be reserved. I changed the end of low > memory to 0xa0000 instead of 0x9f000. If this causes a problem, (I > believe > this was a workaround for IBM's ThinkPad) just add: > reservemem=0x9f000,0x1000
I'll look at it and try to merge it with my chipset patches...
Martin
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