Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: 1G memory limit and Etherboot

[<ke...@us...>]

>On the topic of memory, I have a suggestion for etherboot:
>By default etherboot to override the amount of memory BIOS reports to be the
>amount passed to the kernel in "mem=". There, of course, should be the option
>of using BIOS's report even if "mem=" is given with the onus on the user to
>get it right.

Ok, I've CVSed the changes to support interception and decoding of mem=.
Now first32.c will treat the value in mem= as the effective top of
memory, just like Linux does. There is no override to use the BIOS
value. I'm not sure in what circumstance one would want Linux to use
mem=, but first32.c to use the BIOS value.

Feel free to check out and try it. If there are no problems I'll release
1.2-6 soon.