Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time

[Randy.Dunlap]

> Followup to:
> <[e-mail]> By author:
>  "Randy.Dunlap" <[e-mail]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>>
>> Patch for 'mem=exactmap' in 2.4 was submitted several weeks ago and Alan
>> merged it into -ac.  It does need to be pushed to Marcelo...
>>
>
> Once again, with feeling...
>
> DON'T CALL IT mem=.
>
> mem= is part of the boot protocol.
> Call it memmap= or something, or you'll break boot loaders in weird and
> subtle ways.

OK, with feeling:

I agree with you since the boot protocol is well-defined.

Just to be clear, my comment was referring to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, not to any C code.

And it would really be helpful to catch issues like this soon
after they happen...

Thanks,
~Randy