I'm using a kernel with some special hardware (a NCR-based framegrabber
card), which I don't want autodetected. Therefore, I put
append="reserve=0x6000" into my /etc/lilo.conf. AFAIK, this should
disable autodetection of the hardware in that area. However, this
does not work:
$ cat /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=812 reserver=0x6000
$ cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-009f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
02f8-02ff : serial(set)
0300-031f : NE2000
03c0-03df : vga+
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
03f8-03ff : serial(set)
6000-607f : ncr53c8xx <============================
6100-617f : ncr53c8xx
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