[RFC/PATCH] ppc64: Add mem=X option
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Feb 25 10:48:53 EST 2005
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:38 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure, it seems to boot happily either way. But I think it's better not
> > to bolt it all - that more closely resembles the situation we're trying to
> > simulate, ie that there is no more RAM than the limit.
>
> The only drawback of always bolting it all is that noone will find bugs
> caused by referencing kernel memory that's past the limit. :-)
He's currently not bolting it all and I think that's the way to go.
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