Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:44:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: parsing mem=700M broken |
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 01:03:27 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I find that bootparam "mem=700M" isn't working in linux-next or mmotm, > > > > and have bisected it down to your patch below; but now I'm off to bed > > > > without working out just what goes wrong (I'll bet it's the "="). (I lost that bet) > > Thanks for the report and analysis. > > > Rusty, will you fix or revert it? > > mem= is actually easy, memmap= is harder. This is tested and pushed.
Thanks, that gets my "mem=700M" respected on x86_32 and x86_64. But (of course: it's a patch to arch/x86) doesn't help at all on ppc64; and I presume other architectures also remain broken...
Hugh
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