Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:44:50 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: mem= option for broken bioses |
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Hi!
> > From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@ucw.cz] > > I've seen broken bios that did not mark acpi tables in e820 > > tables. This allows user to override it. Please apply, > > OK, looks reasonable. Can you also gen up a patch documenting this in > kernel-parameters.txt?
You can, assuming you took the patch ;-).
Pavel
--- clean/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2003-02-11 17:40:28.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2003-02-26 23:43:21.000000000 +0100 @@ -516,6 +516,10 @@ [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific region of memory Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + mem=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] + [KNL,BOOT,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. + Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + mem=nopentium [BUGS=IA-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel memory. -- Horseback riding is like software... ...vgf orggre jura vgf serr. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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