From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mem= option for broken bioses
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 06:21:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E64B671.4010504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030304131855.GE618@zaurus.ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> This should be commented, somewhere.
It's commented in Documentation/i386/boot.txt as well as the
kernel-options file. *ALL* i386 boot loaders need to obey this,
unfortunately, because of how the initrd protocol was defined.
> Why is mem= option used by boot loader?
> Does your bootloader really parse stuff
> like mem=exactmap?
No, and that's exactly the problem. A whole bunch of crap was added to
mem= retroactively (over my explicit objections), and that broke the
boot protocol.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 14:11 UTC|newest]
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2003-02-26 22:39 mem= option for broken bioses Grover, Andrew
2003-02-26 22:39 ` Grover, Andrew
[not found] ` <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A8471380D7-sBd4vmA9Se4Lll3ZsUKC9FDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-26 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-26 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20030226224450.GD15455-jyMamyUUXNJG4ohzP4jBZS1Fcj925eT/@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-27 14:27 ` [ACPI] " Robert Woerle Paceblade/Support
2003-02-27 14:27 ` Robert Woerle Paceblade/Support
[not found] ` <3E5E2061.2060807-fPtsKRK0pHxl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-27 15:19 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-27 15:19 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20030227151907.GC12434-jyMamyUUXNJG4ohzP4jBZS1Fcj925eT/@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-27 15:49 ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-02-27 15:49 ` Ducrot Bruno
[not found] ` <20030227154922.GY13404-j6u/t2rXLliUoIHC/UFpr9i2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-27 16:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-27 16:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-27 15:53 ` Robert Woerle Paceblade/Support
2003-02-27 15:53 ` Robert Woerle Paceblade/Support
[not found] ` <3E5E3483.7000302-fPtsKRK0pHxl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-27 16:16 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-27 16:16 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-27 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <b3m840_5e4_1@cesium.transmeta.com>
2003-03-04 13:18 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-04 14:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2003-02-26 20:38 Pavel Machek
2003-02-26 20:38 ` Pavel Machek
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