Re: Setting kernel options at compile time.

Alan Cox
2001-05-04T22:18:36Z

> 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 BIOS itself marks off the block of memory used in VGA emulation
modes. The agpgart driver then gets used by X11 to allocate for the other
modes it uses. At least for every i810 device I have ever seen.

Alan