Re: ack! grub bug...

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

> > > grub -always- passes the "mem=XXX" command line option to the kernel.
> >
> > it's always been that way...
>
> It works around a kernel bug.  That is wrong in and of itself.
> A kernel bug fix belongs in the kernel, not in grub.

I remember a discussion on this topic, and the argument for "mem=" was
that GRUB knows something about the system and uses the standard
mechanism to share this information with the kernel.

It's up to the kernel to decide what to do with this information.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin