Re: ack! grub bug...

[Jeff Garzik]

OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> 
> From: Pavel Roskin <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: ack! grub bug...
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:06:01 -0500 (EST)
> 
> > I believe that "--no-mem-option" should become default. "--mem-option"
> > should be introduced instead for the kernels that still need it.
> 
> I agree, but I believe that we shouldn't introduce incompatibility at
> the moment.

hrm, well... the thing is, hardware is out there, and more is coming
out, where mem=XX simply will break on that machine.  In the case of a
broken bios (bad e820, etc.), the boot loader would need to pass memory
regions to the kernel, so IMHO having the rule "always pass mem=XX by
default" breaks on newer hardware.

In an earlier message you said something like you cannot obtain the
kernel version from a kernel image.  Why not?  At the very least, you
could do a version check and not pass mem=XX for 2.4 kernels.

        Jeff


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