RE: bigphysarea in 2.3?

nathan.zook@amd.com
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:16:05 -0600


There is one caveat to the mem= command. If you do mem=xxx@yyy and xxx
<16M, lilo will misread it and put the ramdisk below that number. Yes,
we're fixing it...

Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: orc@pell.portland.or.us [SMTP:orc@pell.portland.or.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 7:04 PM
> To: x-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: bigphysarea in 2.3?
>
> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.9912150639080.18648-100000@auk.cx>,
> Adam Fritzler <mid@auk.cx> wrote:
> >
> >Are the command lines to the e820 code documented somewhere?
>
> Alas, no, not very well; I've been waiting and watching the buglets
> roll in on e820 so I can fix it up, and Nathan Zook has been doing some
> work of his own that I hope can be mashed together into Memzilla,
> coming
> to save the day.
>
> The e820 command line is an extension to the existing mem= initial
> command line:
>
> mem=foo[KM] (set memory size to foo; actually a memory segment starting
> at 0)
> mem=foo[KM]@bar[KM] (define a memory segment sized foo starting at bar)
> mem=foo[KM]@bar[KM],zip[KM]@zoo[KM] (2 segments; foo@bar, zip@zoo)
>
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