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Subject: Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:11, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> If you need a certain page reserved at boot-time you are out-of-luck.

Wrong - you can specify the precise memory map of a box as well as use 
mem= to set the top of used memory. Its a painful way of marking a page
and it only works for a page the kernel isnt loaded into.

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