Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:09:48 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Reserving a (large) memory block |
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> We then just follow the bios. You can also reserve blocks of memory by > hacking arch/i386/mm/init.c and marking them reserved
in 2.4 there is an explicit interface for this that also guarantees that the allocation consists of fully valid RAM (no matter how complex the RAM map): alloc_bootmem(). We allocate 300MB+ worth of mem_map[] with this on multi-gigabyte boxes.
Ingo
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