[PATCH 0/3] Make use of new memmap= kernel parameter syntax

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:02:12PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Details were discussed on quite some lists (kexec, lkml, x86, etc)
> in a kernel thread with subject:
> [PATCH] x86 e820: only void usable memory areas in memmap=exactmap case
> 
> The patch that memmap= can take several arguments is already queued
> in linux-x86-tip in the mm2 branch.
> 
> There have been no objections on the introduction to memmap=resetusablemap
> for several days after discussing things in detail. The repost patches
> (will do that now) propably will show up in x86-tip mainline kernel
> tree pretty soon as well.
> Target for this feature to show up in Linus' tree is 3.9-rc1.
> Therefore these patches check for 3.9.0 and newer kernels. If such a
> kernel is tried to get loaded via kexec -p, the new memmap= syntax is used.
> 
> Please consider to apply these to the kexec-tools repository.

Hi Thomas,

could I check that the status of these patches is still as you describe above?



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