Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:26:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:25:29 -0400 Received: from bgm-24-169-49-60.stny.rr.com ([24.169.49.60]:4602 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:24:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:31:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@localhost.localdomain Reply-To: Steven Rostedt To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Reserve memory from the command line Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 29 Hi, Today I just discoved that my Toshiba laptop has a small bit of bad memory. So I went on looking for a way to reserve the memory area from the command line, because I run several kernels for various reasons and that it would be easiest to just modify lilo.conf. After seaching the web and scanning the source code I realize that there are only patches to do this and not in the vanilla kernel. I was wondering why such a usefull feature is not in the kernel? I'm using kernel versions 2.4.7 to 2.4.18 and didn't want to go patching each one. I'll probably just hardcode the bad memory as reserved and be done with it. Is this feature planned on becoming part of the kernel, at least as a config option, and if not, then why not? If it is already there, and I missed it, please let me know. Thanks, Steven Rostedt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/