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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:13:22 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:50:03PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> IMHO the current behaviour is still useful.  For example to make sure you
> have only memory below 4G you can say "mem=4G".

maybe it's useful, but it's not what the option is specified to do:

        mem=nn[KMG]     [KNL,BOOT] force use of a specific amount of
                        memory; to be used when the kernel is not able
                        to see the whole system memory or for test.

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