[syslinux] Re: Problem with FreeDOS + himem64 + PXELINUX + memdisk

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> 
> >>Ramdisk at 0xfe60000, length 0x00168000
> >>e820: 0000000000100000  000000000fef0000  1
> >>e820: 000000000fff0000  000000000000ec00  3
> >>e820: 000000000fffec00  0000000000001400  4
> >>e820: 00000000fff80000  0000000000080000  2
> 
> These are: address, length, type for each INT 15h, AX=0E820h memory 
> area.  The type codes are 1 = memory, 2 = reserved, 3 and 4 = ACPI.

Hmmm, it would be nice if it would say the types instead of the type-code.
Maybe even indicate what the normal usage of some segments are (if they 
are known) and the length in bytes. Would it be possible to do 
something like this for output:

	Ramdisk at 0xfe60000, length 1474560 bytes
	e820:   0x100000: 267321344 bytes (memory)
	e820:  0xfff0000: 60416 bytes (acpi0)
	e820:  0xfffec00: 5120 bytes (acpi1)
	e820: 0xfff80000: 524288 bytes (reserved)

This email was very informative I wonder whether it is possible to explain 
the memdisk output a bit more in the documentation ? And if the output is 
a bit more sensible for ignorant people like me it even wouldn't have to 
be documented ;)

Thanks,
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