From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:15:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:15:47 -0400 Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.144]:45704 "EHLO femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:15:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF33665.A8B8EC0A@didntduck.org> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 19:08:21 -0400 From: Brian Gerst X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Schweiss CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Setting kernel options at compile time. In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chip Schweiss wrote: > > I'm trying to get a 2.2.19 kernel loaded on an i810 system using RPLD on > a diskless system. I can get the kernel loaded and running. The > problem is the i810 needs the kernel parameter "mem=xxxM" set to tell > the kernel how much memory the system has since the on the i810 the > kernel doesn't know how much was taken for video. > > The catch I'm running into is RPLD cannot pass parameters to the kernel > and without this setting the system has video problem, most likely from > the memory sharing issues. When the mem parameter is set when using a > disk it doesn't demonstrate any problems. > > What I'm trying to figure out is how to compile in this setting. > > Thanks, > Chip Schweiss Try a 2.4 kernel. If the BIOS is reserving memory for the video card it should show up in the e820 memory map. 2.2.x last I checked doesn't use e820 for memory detection. -- Brian Gerst