Re: Linux-2.4.0-test2

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2000 - 12:35:19 EST


On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:35:22PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
>> Is it possible to utilize a memory not used by console?
>
>Yes. I'd had a patch for that once, but it caused problems
>on the ds20s. Andrea had the same problem with a similar patch.

Exactly. We originally tried to reuse such memory (the one reported as
real memory) but it caused my machine to hang at boot. Strange thing is
that 2.2.x seems to reuse the memory before the kernel too.

>Not sure what's going on there -- perhaps a busted SRM.

Note sure too at this moment.

Andrea

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