Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time | Date | 4 Mar 2003 21:44:32 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0212040905230.8842-100000@dragon.pdx.osdl.net> By author: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Patch for 'mem=exactmap' in 2.4 was submitted several weeks ago and > Alan merged it into -ac. It does need to be pushed to Marcelo... >
Once again, with feeling...
DON'T CALL IT mem=.
mem= is part of the boot protocol. Call it memmap= or something, or you'll break boot loaders in weird and subtle ways.
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