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?
