Memory Pre-allocation (mem=xxx)

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <8A098FDFC6EED94B872CA2033711F86F0ABD0C at orion.ariodata.com> you wrote:
>
> We're working on a project that requires a two megabytes block of
> contiguous memory in kernel space. Although it is well documented that
> memory can be reserved by using mem=xx arguments during boot time, it is
> unclear (to me) as to how a driver can automatically detect the size of
> the said reserved block.

Pass an extra boot argument?

Wolfgang Denk

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