Re: [PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to128

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Apr 22 2005 - 20:51:57 EST




On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
>
> The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit
> on the number of E820 entries. But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32.
> With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries
> reaching close to 32. Patch below bumps the number upto 128.

Hmm. Anything that changes setup.S tends to have bootloader dependencies.
I worry whether this one does too..

Linus
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