Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Possible workaround for buggy E801 call in 2.2.x | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:22:59 -0800 (PST) | From | "David Parsons" <> |
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Prashant TR wrote: > > david parsons wrote:
> > Are there any cases where a system does not have E820 but has a > > broken E801? And in that case, is there any safe way to deal > > with it? > > I don't know of a system with E820 and a broken E801 at present.
One of the FIC slot-1 motherboards of recent vintage has exactly that (the VB-601; I can't say the vintage of the bios, because all the VB-601's I administer are parked about 4 miles north of me right now.) That's what provoked the e820 implementation in the first place -- e801 would tell me I had half a gig, 88 would tell me 64mb, and e820 returns a memory map containing the correct 128mb of system ram.
____ david parsons \bi/ It works on the mighty Compaq 386/20, so it's \/ passed the first wall of fire.
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