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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> 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 ;)
> 

Quite frankly, if you can't tell just by looking at it what it is you 
clearly don't know how the e820 memory map works, and should be looking 
up its documentation.

Suggesting mixing hex and decimal is beyond ridiculous.

	-hpa