mem= option for broken bioses

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 15:38:42 EST

Hi!

I've seen broken bios that did not mark acpi tables in e820
tables. This allows user to override it. Please apply,

                                                        Pavel

--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2003-02-11 17:50:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-tablet/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2003-02-20 18:03:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -546,6 +546,12 @@
                                 if (*from == '@') {
                                         start_at = memparse(from+1, &from);
                                         add_memory_region(start_at, mem_size, E820_RAM);
+ } else if (*from == '#') {
+ start_at = memparse(from+1, &from);
+ add_memory_region(start_at, mem_size, E820_ACPI);
+ } else if (*from == '$') {
+ start_at = memparse(from+1, &from);
+ add_memory_region(start_at, mem_size, E820_RESERVED);
                                 } else {
                                         limit_regions(mem_size);
                                         userdef=1; 

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