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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 17:36:11 -0700
From: Petko Manolov <pmanolov@Lnxw.COM>
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Subject: Re: discontig physical memory
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"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> You need to setup bootmem correctly, earlier on, such that
> you do not tell the kernel that there are any pages in this
> 4 - 16MB region.
> 
> Do something like this instead of whatever your bootmem
> calls are doing now:
> 
>         bootmap_size = init_bootmem(0, (32 * 1024 * 1024));
>         free_bootmem((4 * 1024 * 1024),
>                      ((16 - 4) * 1024 * 1024));

This is suppose to tell the kernel about the gap?


	Petko
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