Re: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

[Paul <set@pobox.com>]

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"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>, on Sat Jan 04, 2003 [02:22:43 AM] said:
> HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!
> 
> New release of this kinda-hacked-kernel. Now that Andre's ide and many bugfixes
> are in mainline, there is hole for more things ;)
> 03-memparam.bz2
>     Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
>     kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
>     Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
>             Leonardo Gomes Figueira <sabbath@planetarium.com.br>
> 
> 
> Enjoy!!
> 
> -- 
> J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:

	Hi;

	This reversion should probably kill limit_regions()
too... as I think it eliminates the only reference to it.

Paul
set@pobox.com

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--- 2.4.20-mem/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c.orig	2003-01-03 23:08:41.000000000 -0500
+++ 2.4.20-mem/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2003-01-03 23:09:34.000000000 -0500
@@ -418,22 +418,6 @@
 	}
 }
 
-static void __init limit_regions (unsigned long long size)
-{
-	unsigned long long current_addr = 0;
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
-		if (e820.map[i].type == E820_RAM) {
-			current_addr = e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size;
-			if (current_addr >= size) {
-				e820.map[i].size -= current_addr-size;
-				e820.nr_map = i + 1;
-				return;
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
 static void __init add_memory_region(unsigned long long start,
                                   unsigned long long size, int type)
 {