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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to tell linux (on x86) to ignore 1M or memory
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:30:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070419163007.26db4041@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070419141804.GO32620@jukie.net>

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:18:04 -0400
Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> wrote:

> I need to preserve some state from the bios before entering protected
> mode.  For now I want to copy it into some ram accessible by real-mode,
> say the last megabyte visible in real-mode.
> 
> What's the easiest way to have linux ignore the megabyte starting at 15M?
> 

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:

        memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
                        [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
                        Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.


So adding this to kernel boot parameters should do the trick:

	memmap=15M$1M

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v3-g6262cd9f on x86_64

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-19 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-19 14:18 how to tell linux (on x86) to ignore 1M or memory Bart Trojanowski
2007-04-19 14:30 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2007-04-20 19:01 ` Rene Herman
2007-06-22  1:46   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-22 13:16     ` Rene Herman
     [not found] <8bFEz-3B4-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <8c6EE-4Jj-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-04-20 21:39   ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found]   ` <8yGrK-4vX-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <8yRnb-4XE-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-06-22 23:00       ` Bodo Eggert
2007-06-22 23:04         ` Rene Herman

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