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From(david parsons)
SubjectRe: Memory detection is still broken in 2.3.36
Date6 Jan 2000 16:27:04 -0800
In article <linux.kernel.20000106173356.B1730@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>,
Jamie Lokier  <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 0009fc00 @ 00000000 (usable) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00000400 @ 0009fc00 (reserved) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00004000 @ 000e8000 (usable) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00010000 @ 000f0000 (reserved) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 03ee0000 @ 00100000 (usable) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00010000 @ 03fe0000 (ACPI data) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00010000 @ 03ff0000 (reserved) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00016e00 @ 100a0000 (reserved) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00000200 @ 100b6e00 (ACPI NVS) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00049000 @ 100b7000 (reserved) 
>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00080000 @ fff80000 (reserved) 
>
>The map looks plausible to me.  How do I tell which page ranges the
>kernel is using for memory allocation?

   The (usable) pages, like, oh...

>Jan  6 05:03:56 thefinal kernel: e820: 00004000 @ 000e8000 (usable) 

   ... which is most likely the guilty party that's making your
   system die.


   Try the patch I've put on the lkml and see if that makes a difference
   (this is the memory detection part of the monster memory patch than
   Nathan Zook and I have been batting about for the past few weeks;
   one of the things it does is ignore e820 regions that live in the
   640k-1mb region, where several bioses cheerfully LIE and report
   exists.)

                 ____
   david parsons \bi/ and you've got a bios that politely sorts all the
                  \/             e820 regions.  How unfortunate that it
		                   should slip one little whopper on in.
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