Yeah, that makes sense, I will shortly send a documentation patch for all the boot vars that I have added.
Thanks for reminding. -Manish Linas Vepstas wrote: > On 07/04/2008, Manish Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A small proposed change in the amount of reserve space we allocate during >> boot. >> Currently we reserve 256MB only. >> The proposed change does one of the 3 things. >> >> A. It checks to see if there is cmdline variable set and if found sets the >> value to it. OR >> B. It computes 5% of total ram and rounds it down to multiples of 256MB. AND >> C. Compares the rounded down value and returns larger of two values, the new >> computed value or 256MB. >> >> Again this is for large systems who have excess memory. >> > [...] >> early_param("phyp_dump", early_phyp_dump_enabled); > > I'm pretty sure you will want to document this boot param in the > documentation, > as well as add a few words about why it might be interesting to users (i.e. > that its for large systems...) > > --linas _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev