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SubjectRe: Sony S170 + 1GB ram => Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Lincoln D. Durey wrote:
>> well, it must be the boot loader, as the kernel didn't add that, and we
>> didn't ... looking at the GRUB source ... ARGH: we see in stage2/boot.c in
>> that big comment about boot proto 2.03 that grub is indeed adding kernel
>> command line options, (even to 2.4.24 and 2.6.8). How can this be? Their
>> code says it shouldn't, but it does.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:44:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, good to know that the kernel was correct, but it might be worthwhile
> trying to debug why grub thinks it should do it's (incorrect) memory map.
> Also, I'd suggest somebody send the grub team a patch to remove the whole
> damn mess, I doubt anybody who installs a new bootloader is interested in
> installing a buggy one.
> Pretty much every kernel has done a better job of memory sizing than grub
> seems to do, and I suspect even the "pre-2.4.14" case was just a total bug
> in grub, and nothing else.

The grub mem= is a major screwup. It's worse than that, though. grub
also hardcodes MAXMEM, which it should obtain from the bzImage.


-- wli
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