Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: mem= option for broken bioses | Date | 27 Feb 2003 15:48:16 -0800 |
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Followup to: <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A8471380D7@orsmsx401.jf.intel.com> By author: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@ucw.cz] > > I've seen broken bios that did not mark acpi tables in e820 > > tables. This allows user to override it. Please apply, > > OK, looks reasonable. Can you also gen up a patch documenting this in > kernel-parameters.txt? >
This is very much *NOT* reasonable. In fact, screwing around with the syntax of the mem= parameter is poison. I know it has already happened, and those changes need to be reverted and the new stuff moved to a different option.
The mem= option is unique in that it is an option that affects both the boot loader and the kernel. Therefore, ITS SYNTAX MUST NOT CHANGE.
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