Re: New new enhanced memory detection patch; testers wanted

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:23:57 +0000 (GMT)

> This points at the necessity to precisely define the memory use
> at boot time, and to set aside a fragment of memory substantially
> larger than what we have now.

Its not like you cant reclaim the page as if it were __init afterwards. One
sensible thing the m68k people did with their ever growing subtly changing
boot info records is to switch to a tagged list for stuff the booter passes

Now all the parsing code can be __init so its not a size issue, and its
fairly easy to parse

[tag][size][data]

sequences as well as buring the compatibility issues and boot loader
compatibility problems we have to worry about now for a lot of stuff

Alan

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