From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mem=16MB laptop testing
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:20:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031015102029.58971c62.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031015153212.GA5197@redhat.com>
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> [PATCH] memsetup fixes (again)
>
> The mem= fixes from Red Hat's tree had a small bug:
> if mem= was not actually used with the additional features, but
> int plain old way, is used the value as the size of memory it
> wants, not the upper limit. The problem with this is that there
> is a small difference due to memory holes.
>
> I had one report of a person using mem= to reduce memory size for
> a broken i386 chipset thaty only supports 64MB cached and the rest
> as mtd/slram device for swap. I got broken as the boundaries changed.
>
>
> Assuming this patch is correct, it needs forward porting to 2.6
I'll queue up a patch to do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-15 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-14 10:55 mem=16MB laptop testing William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-14 11:01 ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 11:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-14 13:20 ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 11:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 11:58 ` Russell King
2003-10-14 12:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:18 ` Russell King
2003-10-14 12:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:17 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-10-14 12:31 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:44 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-10-14 23:40 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15 13:32 ` Martin Waitz
2003-10-15 17:34 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 12:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-15 12:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 13:20 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-15 13:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 13:59 ` Larry Sendlosky
2003-10-15 15:34 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 15:38 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-15 16:06 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 17:45 ` Mike Dresser
2003-10-15 15:32 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 17:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-15 0:35 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-15 4:31 ` Andrew Morton
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