Re: is there a way to let kernel to skip one region of physical memory?

From: Viktor Rosenfeld (rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de)
Date: Sat Aug 18 2001 - 07:41:37 EST

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Feng Xian wrote:
>
> Hi, all,
>
> I have a question. say I have 128M physical memory, but for some reason, I
> don't want the kernel to use a little part of that memory, e.g. physical
> address from 4M to 5M. is there a way to let the kernel to do something
> like this? thanks in advance.

I think the badram kernel patches do just that. See
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/.

Cheers,
Viktor

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