On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:08:52PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > in setup.c  the kernel tries to reserve ram resources for system ram etc
> > etc. However it seems it's done with the parameters to request_resource in
> > the wrong order (it certainly is opposite order from other neighboring
> > code). Can someone confirm I'm not overlooking something?
> 
> You've overlooked something.
> 
> The core uses the rigth order: it's literally trying to find _which_ of 
> the e820 resources contains the "code" and "data" resource.
> 
> In other words: the code and data resources don't contain anything. They 
> are contained _in_ something, but we don't know which one off-hand, so we 
> try to register them in all the memory resources we find. 

> and not used for anything else.

ok fair enough; maybe deserves more comment but it makes sense.