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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:00:18 -0400
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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>  Since the 2.4 kernels introduce the e820map structure, I'd like to
>  plug into that infrastructure, and create a new type memory segment
>  for this storage (I envisage having more than one segment), but in the
>  2.4.4 kernel (which I am forced to remain with for quite a while) it
>  seems not to be used apart from set up at boot time.

Stop reinventing the wheel and take Matt & Pauline's bigphisarea.
 http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink/patch/bigphysarea-2.4.4.tar.gz

-- Pete
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