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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:27:45 +0100
From: Robert Woerle Paceblade/Support <robert@paceblade.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: mem= option for broken bioses
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Pavel Machek schrieb:

>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 ;-).
>  
>
well how can i find the correct value`s to put in ??

>								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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