Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:07:32 -0700 | From | "Larry M. Augustin" <> | Subject | Re: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up |
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>From: Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> >> > Are you sure 0xe801 won't crash on bioses that don't implement >> > it? I.e., mostly on ancient 386's ? ... but probably the best thing >> > will be to test it in the 2.1 kernels before putting it to the >> > mainstream ones. >> > >> >> This has been in 2.1 for quite a while. In fact, there are also two >> new BIOS calls (one being int 0x15:0xe820) that may be considered... > > OK, I incorrectly assumed we call the old function first and continue >with the new one only if it reports 64M...
That's what I did in 2.0.30, unfortuantely BIOS on Compaq's only reports a maximum of 16MB wiht the old BIOS call.
Larry
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