Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:20:29 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: mem=16MB laptop testing |
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > > [PATCH] memsetup fixes (again) > > The mem= fixes from Red Hat's tree had a small bug: > if mem= was not actually used with the additional features, but > int plain old way, is used the value as the size of memory it > wants, not the upper limit. The problem with this is that there > is a small difference due to memory holes. > > I had one report of a person using mem= to reduce memory size for > a broken i386 chipset thaty only supports 64MB cached and the rest > as mtd/slram device for swap. I got broken as the boundaries changed. > > > Assuming this patch is correct, it needs forward porting to 2.6
I'll queue up a patch to do that.
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