Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:53:51 -0700 | From | "Larry M. Augustin" <> | Subject | Re: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up |
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Here are some memory detection patches for 2.0.30, 2.0.30-pre2, and 2.1.44.
These patches modify the x86 memory BIOS query code to:
1. always return the ah=0x88 BIOS function result in the PARAM+2 slot in the kernel parameter page exactly as done in the original code. This should make programs that depend on this happy.
2. Newer BIOS calls (0xe801 and 0xc7) are used to test for larger amounts of memory. The results of these calls are returned in new locations in the kernel parameter page.
3. arch/i386/kernel/setup.c then compares results and sets the memory size accordingly.
Please let me know if this solves the loadlin problems (particularly with 2.1 kernels). Also, I'd like to see reports from anyone who sees any results reporting the amount of cachable RAM.
Patches for 2.0.30: setup.S-2.0.30.patch patches arch/i386/boot/setup.S setup.c-2.0.30.patch patches arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Patches for 2.0.30-pre2: setup.S-2.0.30-pre2.patch patches arch/i386/boot/setup.S setup.c-2.0.30-pre2.patch patches arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Patches for 2.1.44: memdetect-2.1.44.patch
I've tried these on a handful of machines around here, but nothing terribly extensive yet.
Larry
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