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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:41:16 +0100
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory
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Jan-Simon M?ller wrote:
> Am Montag 10 M?rz 2008 18:20:19 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
>> Jan-Simon M?ller wrote:
>>> badram=0x18690000,0xffff0000
>>> (which means a whole from 0x18690000 to 0x1869ffff )
>> memmap=0x18690000$64K
>>
>> 	or
>>
>> memmap=0x18690000$0x10000
>>
>> 	-hpa
> 
> 
> Hmmm reading the kernel-parameters again and again ...
> 
> <QUOTE>
>         memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
>                         [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
>                         Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
> </QUOTE>
> 
> 
> nn would be 0x18690000   or ~409MB
> ss would be 0x10000      or 64k
> 
> quite big hole ???
> 
> I'm not in front of the faulty box, but something is wrong there ...
> 

Sorry, got it backwards.

	-hpa
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