[syslinux] [PATCH][git-pull] MEMDISK: Process "mem=" parameter and apply to e820 ranges

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 13:24:33 PST 2011


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 19:35, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 16:23, Robert McLay <the80sphreak at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gene,
>>
>>> This has shown useful for an end user when using a particular legacy
>>> DOS application in a machine with 1024MiB or more of RAM.  Specifying
>>> "mem=" without modifying MEMDISK was insufficient.
>>
>>  I mentioned that some colleagues and friends would test this for you,
>>  just like to mention that we tested this on a Dell Poweredge 4600
>>  with 16GB of RAM, limited down to 1020MB and it did the business.
>>
>>  I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone on the list
>>  and IRC who helped me out.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Robert
>
> Robert, thanks again for the feedback.

HPA: I've made the commits to change it as we discussed.  Let me know.

-- 
-Gene




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