Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:27:24 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rick@vanrein.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory
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* devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote:

> >What is wrong with mem=exactmap?
> 
> probably no ordinary user knows how to use it instead of badram?
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-04/msg00501.html
> 
> someone please show us how to use that instead of badram or how this 
> can replace what badram does.

as i said it in another reply to this thread, it would be perfectly 
acceptable for upstream to merge an easier to use boot option - be that 
badmem=addr$size or excludemem=addr$size. Please send a patch :-)

	Ingo
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