Re: linux-next: parsing mem=700M broken

Hugh Dickins
2008-12-24T14:44:17Z

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 01:03:27 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I find that bootparam "mem=700M" isn't working in linux-next or mmotm,
> > > > and have bisected it down to your patch below; but now I'm off to bed
> > > > without working out just what goes wrong (I'll bet it's the "=").
(I lost that bet)
>
> Thanks for the report and analysis.
>
> > Rusty, will you fix or revert it?
>
> mem= is actually easy, memmap= is harder. This is tested and pushed.

Thanks, that gets my "mem=700M" respected on x86_32 and x86_64.
But (of course: it's a patch to arch/x86) doesn't help at all on
ppc64; and I presume other architectures also remain broken...

Hugh