On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:21:03AM +0800, Mark.Zhan wrote: > >At kernel initialization time just don't tell the kernel about the > >existence of your memory region. For many systems that just means you > >shrink the memory region passed to the add_memory_region() call to > >something that suits your platform. > Maybe it is a more flexible way to specify the memory regions via > command line. You know, this will produce User-defined memory regions to > kernel. Maybe for a specific application or platform. For a sourcebase like linux-mips.org's with a very large number of users on sometimes very complex platforms I'd never ever think of exposing such details. Ralf