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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