Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:48:38 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time |
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Randy.Dunlap wrote: > | > | Unfortunately last time I commented on this the response was roughly > | "well, the patch already made it into Linus' kernel, it's too late to > | fix it now." That isn't exactly a very helpful response. > > I don't see why it's too late. How can it be too late? > Ah, because it's already made it into 2.4? >
More because people don't want to fix their mistakes, I suspect :(
I don't know who originally started adding stuff to "mem=", but I still feel it needs to be backed out and renamed.
> | The mem= parameter has the semantic in the i386/PC boot protocol that > | it specifies the top address of the usable memory region that begins > | at 0x100000. It's a bit of a wart that the boot loaders have to be > | aware of this, but it's so and it's been so for a very long time. > > So it's the top of the 0x100000-mem physical linear memory region > (i.e., no gaps)?
Correct.
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