From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: devzero@web.de, pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rick@vanrein.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:27:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D26A00.7050308@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080304132724.GB32383@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote:
>
>>> What is wrong with mem=exactmap?
>> probably no ordinary user knows how to use it instead of badram?
>> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-04/msg00501.html
>>
>> someone please show us how to use that instead of badram or how this
>> can replace what badram does.
>
> as i said it in another reply to this thread, it would be perfectly
> acceptable for upstream to merge an easier to use boot option - be that
> badmem=addr$size or excludemem=addr$size. Please send a patch :-)
>
It already called:
memmap=addr$size
... and has been implemented for years. Does the badram patch do
anything different? (And yes, I agree the $/@/# is ugly.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-08 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 12:21 [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory devzero
2008-03-04 13:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 13:43 ` Rick van Rein
2008-03-04 14:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 15:05 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-08 10:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-03-08 11:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-10 10:12 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 11:24 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 11:52 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-10 14:23 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-10 17:48 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 18:59 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 19:16 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 22:56 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-11 0:37 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-11 17:23 ` Len Brown
2008-03-11 17:49 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-11 19:24 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-11 20:00 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 22:07 ` Rick van Rein
2008-03-11 0:41 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-11 6:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-04 14:00 devzero
2008-03-02 13:42 Rick van Rein
2008-03-02 17:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-02 17:42 ` Rick van Rein
2008-03-03 3:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-03 5:32 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 7:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-03 7:35 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 9:49 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-03 9:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-03-02 17:53 ` Joseph Fannin
2008-03-02 19:34 ` Rick van Rein
2008-03-03 14:14 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-03 16:41 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-08 10:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-08 10:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 17:38 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <20080303082238.GB13580@elte.hu>
[not found] ` <47CC3005.5090706@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20080304133028.GC32383@elte.hu>
2008-03-04 16:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04 16:47 ` Ingo Molnar
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