Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 08:25:57 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time |
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On 3 Dec 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:11, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > If you need a certain page reserved at boot-time you are out-of-luck. > > Wrong - you can specify the precise memory map of a box as well as use > mem= to set the top of used memory. Its a painful way of marking a page > and it only works for a page the kernel isnt loaded into. >
If you are refering to the "reserve=" kernel parameter, I don't think it works for memory addresses that are inside existing RAM. I guess if you used the "mem=" parameter to keep the kernel from using that RAM, the combination might work, but I have never tried it.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Bush : The Fourth Reich of America
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