Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory

Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-11T00:41:20Z

Am Montag 10 März 2008 18:20:19 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
> Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
> > badram=0x18690000,0xffff0000
> > (which means a whole from 0x18690000 to 0x1869ffff )
>
> memmap=0x18690000$64K
>
> or
>
> memmap=0x18690000$0x10000
>
> -hpa

Hmmm reading the kernel-parameters again and again ...

<QUOTE>
memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
</QUOTE>

nn would be 0x18690000 or ~409MB
ss would be 0x10000 or 64k

quite big hole ???

I'm not in front of the faulty box, but something is wrong there ...

Best regards,
Jan-Simon