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| author | Andy Grover <agrover@groveronline.com> | 2003-02-25 23:06:19 -0800 |
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| committer | Andy Grover <agrover@groveronline.com> | 2003-02-25 23:06:19 -0800 |
| commit | a32f4c3e61e94ed9c38acb322b5c4f05ab9059f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a5e3f50e55aa674eeef1724dcc394702f5b538c | |
| parent | a2a91930c09a00a2a5b94d7112124e4b7925516e (diff) | |
ACPI: Expand the mem= cmdline to allow the specification of reserved and
ACPI DATA blocks (Pavel Machek)
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index dd5dcfe400d4..eb5c056ad26c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -516,6 +516,14 @@ running once the system is up. [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific region of memory Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + mem=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] + [KNL,BOOT,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. + Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + + mem=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] + [KNL,BOOT,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. + Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + mem=nopentium [BUGS=IA-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel memory. diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c index 203b37b81679..ba62d7575bd2 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c @@ -545,6 +545,12 @@ static void __init parse_cmdline_early (char ** cmdline_p) if (*from == '@') { start_at = memparse(from+1, &from); add_memory_region(start_at, mem_size, E820_RAM); + } else if (*from == '#') { + start_at = memparse(from+1, &from); + add_memory_region(start_at, mem_size, E820_ACPI); + } else if (*from == '$') { + start_at = memparse(from+1, &from); + add_memory_region(start_at, mem_size, E820_RESERVED); } else { limit_regions(mem_size); userdef=1; |