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a file from sunsite about precompiled kernels said shadow ram wastes memory
in linux. That means shadow rom, right? That means I should run the BIOS
setup program and turn shadow rom off, shadow rom does not make linux faster
because linux ignores the rom, but linux does not use memory used by shadow
rom, so turning off shadow rom makes more memory available to linux, right?

So this means that if the bios allocates some of the ram to something or
other, then linux recognizes that the bios is using that memory, and linux
does not use that memory?