Memory Pre-allocation (mem=xxx)

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:14:00AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:11:00PM -0800, David C. Chiu wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the response. Would you be so kind to be more specific? I did
> > a coarse search of the kernel documentation subdirectory contents, but
> > fail to find what you are referring to (although I have been referred to
> > as the seeing blind in the past.)
>
> Sorry, I don't recall exactly where/what it is.  I do remember there
> being a few projects which required a large chunk of contigious memory,
> and having to do mem=XXm in 2.0 (2.2?) but in 2.2 (2.4?) there's kernel
> calls you can make to get a large contig section of memory, if it
> exists.

... and it might even be the 'alloc_bootmem' call Jim Lewis mentioned,
now that I think about it..

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