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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:46:26 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated /proc/iomem patch
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On Thursday 15 September 2005 10:26 am, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> I am not sure if marking the memory allocated by bootloader for kernel,
> inital ramdisk, EFI memory map and boot parameters as "reserved"
> in /proc/iomem is the right thing to do. I have done it this way in the
> patch but I would appreciate other opinions.

I'm curious about how kexec-tools uses the information from iomem.
It tells you about physical address space, and you can't do much
with physical addresses from user-space.  I suppose it's obvious
from the kexec-tools source -- do you have a pointer?