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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time
Date: 4 Mar 2003 21:44:32 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0212040905230.8842-100000@dragon.pdx.osdl.net>
By author:    "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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> 
> Patch for 'mem=exactmap' in 2.4 was submitted several weeks ago and
> Alan merged it into -ac.  It does need to be pushed to Marcelo...
> 

Once again, with feeling...

DON'T CALL IT mem=.

mem= is part of the boot protocol.
Call it memmap= or something, or you'll break boot loaders in weird
and subtle ways.

	-hpa
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