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On Tue, 19 November 2002 14:40:19 -0500, Richard Brunelle wrote:
> 
> -How the parameters to SLRAM are passed?

This depends on your boot loader. For lilo, you can put this into
/etc/lilo.conf:
	append="slram=bbram,exe0000,+0x8000"

> -Is there any provision for pageable memory?

No, none. The slram driver needs absolute control over the memory
area, it uses. If the kernel mm code also uses it, e.g. hands it out
on kmalloc() calls, you're screwed.

Jörn

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