> I'd like to second this. It is often usefull to exclude some areas of
> memory. (For example if you are hunting bug in CPU ;-).
>
> PS: Patch is easy to do. If you convince Linus to include it, I
> volunteer to write it.
Well, we probably should take a slightly more generic approach to the
problem: allocate memory regions in just the same way as we do with
the I/O ports (which already have a "reserve=" command-line option).
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "IBM = Inferior, But Marketable"