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authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2008-03-24 12:29:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-03-24 19:22:19 -0700
commit1312848e92a0686cb5124aa86ea58d55ba795742 (patch)
tree67fdd9d93fb3540ef9b74c1c7a0e3ba3ae14b143 /Documentation
parentcc7feea39bed2951cc29af3ad642f39a99dfe8d3 (diff)
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>
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@@ -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.