Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

[Andrew Morton]

Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.


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