Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | 12 Jun 1999 14:38:41 -0000 | | From | Christer Weinigel <> | | Subject | Re: holes for ISA boards... |
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Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX> wrote: > > Christer Weinigel made a patch for 2.0.29 so long ago that > > let Linux use all your RAM and still have the hole. > > > It may still be available at: > > > ftp://rvs.ctrl-c.liu.se/pub/wingel/memory-hole-2.0.29.diff > > > Shouldn't be terribly difficult to move to 2.2/2.3. > >Any idea why this patch wasn't included in the main kernel? >It sounds like it'd be a very useful feature.
Mostly because it's such an ugly hack I never considered getting into the standard kernel, and I think that when I posted it on linux-kernel someone said there was a more generic memory detection scheme in the linux-2.1 kernel already.
Another problem is that my code only handled autodetection of the memory hole with a very specific Intel chipset (and a broken BIOS, that's why I poked directly at the hardware).
It would probably be a better idea to backport the 2.2 memory detection scheme to the 2.0 kernels, doing it right. Any volunteers?
/Christer
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