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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mem=16MB laptop testing
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:20:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031015102029.58971c62.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031015153212.GA5197@redhat.com>

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> [PATCH] memsetup fixes (again)
> 
>  The mem= fixes from Red Hat's tree had a small bug:
>  if mem= was not actually used with the additional features, but
>  int plain old way, is used the value as the size of memory it
>  wants, not the upper limit.  The problem with this is that there
>  is a small difference due to memory holes.
>  				    
>  I had one report of a person using mem= to reduce memory size for
>  a broken i386 chipset thaty only supports 64MB cached and the rest
>  as mtd/slram device for swap.  I got broken as the boundaries changed.
> 
> 
>  Assuming this patch is correct, it needs forward porting to 2.6

I'll queue up a patch to do that.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-14 10:55 mem=16MB laptop testing William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-14 11:01 ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 11:08   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-14 13:20     ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 11:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 11:58   ` Russell King
2003-10-14 12:10     ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:18       ` Russell King
2003-10-14 12:30         ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:17   ` Anton Blanchard
2003-10-14 12:31     ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:44       ` Anton Blanchard
2003-10-14 23:40         ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15 13:32           ` Martin Waitz
2003-10-15 17:34             ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:28   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 12:12   ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-15 12:51     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 13:20       ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-15 13:28         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 13:59           ` Larry Sendlosky
2003-10-15 15:34             ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 15:38             ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-15 16:06               ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 17:45               ` Mike Dresser
2003-10-15 15:32         ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 17:20           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-15  0:35 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-15  4:31 ` Andrew Morton

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