Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:19:02 +0000 | | From | Russell King <> | | Subject | Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems |
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On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:52:12AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: > e820 map: > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f6f0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000f6f0000 - 000000000f700000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 000000000f700000 - 000000003f6f0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000003f6f0000 - 000000003f6f8000 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 000000003f6f8000 - 000000003f6fa000 (ACPI NVS) > BIOS-e820: 000000003f700000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 118MB HIGHMEM available. > 896MB LOWMEM available. > > Is the hole between 0x36f6fa000 and 0x3f700000?
Looks like it.
> And what would be the proper way of fixing it (assuming that IBM won't > issue a fixed BIOS)?
Try passing:
reserve=0x3f6fa000,0x6000
to the kernel.
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