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| author | Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> | 2008-03-24 20:29:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-25 03:22:19 +0100 |
| commit | 1312848e92a0686cb5124aa86ea58d55ba795742 (patch) | |
| tree | 67fdd9d93fb3540ef9b74c1c7a0e3ba3ae14b143 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/... (diff) | |
| download | linux-1312848e92a0686cb5124aa86ea58d55ba795742.tar.xz linux-1312848e92a0686cb5124aa86ea58d55ba795742.zip | |
kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option better
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and
non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 650b0d8aa89b..508e2a2c9864 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1130,6 +1130,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff + memmap=64K$0x18690000 + or + memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. |