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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:44:50 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: ACPI mailing list <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
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Subject: Re: mem= option for broken bioses
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Hi!

> > From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@ucw.cz] 
> > I've seen broken bios that did not mark acpi tables in e820
> > tables. This allows user to override it. Please apply,
> 
> OK, looks reasonable. Can you also gen up a patch documenting this in
> kernel-parameters.txt?

You can, assuming you took the patch ;-).

								Pavel

--- clean/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2003-02-11 17:40:28.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2003-02-26 23:43:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -516,6 +516,10 @@
 			[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific region of memory
 			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
 
+	mem=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
+			[KNL,BOOT,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
+			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+
 	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=IA-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
 			memory.
 
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