Re: Where is memory handed out?

From: david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 01:50:42 EST


In article <linux.kernel.200003202130.WAA16750@theatre.cs.utwente.nl>,
Rick van Rein <vanrein@cs.utwente.nl> wrote:

>May I ask: What is the intention of this "smap" option; is it to use
>damaged RAM or does it serve another purpose?

   It's so you can roll your own e820 memory map, in case the system either
   doesn't do it or is not doing it correctly.

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   david parsons \bi/ hopefully never the case, but ...
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