Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:27:12 +0100 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote: > >>> What is wrong with mem=exactmap? >> probably no ordinary user knows how to use it instead of badram? >> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-04/msg00501.html >> >> someone please show us how to use that instead of badram or how this >> can replace what badram does. > > as i said it in another reply to this thread, it would be perfectly > acceptable for upstream to merge an easier to use boot option - be that > badmem=addr$size or excludemem=addr$size. Please send a patch :-) >
It already called:
memmap=addr$size
... and has been implemented for years. Does the badram patch do anything different? (And yes, I agree the $/@/# is ugly.)
-hpa
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