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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:12:46 +0200
From: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org>
To: enjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: rtas instantiation when commandline contains mem
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Hi,

the rtas instantiation (prom_init.c) doesn't work correctly if the
kernel parameter "mem=" is used. The current code doesn't evaluate
the kernel parameter which causes the issue that alloc_down
allocates somewhere in the "real" memory space. So it can
happen that the allocation space is above "mem=".

Commit 2babf5c2ec2f2d5de3e38d20f7df7fd815fd10c9 removes the
evaluation of "mem=".

cheers
 ben