From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:41:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:41:05 -0400 Received: from mail.mbi-berlin.de ([194.95.11.12]:59082 "EHLO mail.mbi-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:40:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3B7E6281.DDD093B7@informatik.hu-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:41:37 +0200 From: Viktor Rosenfeld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Feng Xian CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is there a way to let kernel to skip one region of physical memory? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Feng Xian wrote: > > Hi, all, > > I have a question. say I have 128M physical memory, but for some reason, I > don't want the kernel to use a little part of that memory, e.g. physical > address from 4M to 5M. is there a way to let the kernel to do something > like this? thanks in advance. I think the badram kernel patches do just that. See http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/