Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix" | Date | 5 Jan 2000 12:45:24 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.A41.4.21.0001051457400.9934-100000@kleopatra.acc.umu.se>, David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote: >On 5 Jan 2000, david parsons wrote: > >> In article <linux.kernel.20000105022021.C920@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>, >> Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >More things: >> > >> >+ memory detection is broken and may be causing fs corruption >> >> There's a patch for memory detection floating around forlornly waiting >> to be stuffed into the kernel and/or tested by people who have had >> trouble with memory detection. >> >> (It works for me(tm), but I've only got about 20 different bioses in >> my box farm, and those bioses don't include some of the problematic >> toshiba and IBM bioses that have been insuffiently cooperative with >> the earlier version of the e820 patch.) > >If those IBM bioses you're talking about are: > >a.) IBM Thinkpad >b.) IBM PS/2 >c.) IBM relatively new desktop-models
One of 'em is a fairly modern IBM Thinkpad (560? 660?), so I'd love to have you test the patch on every machine you're willing to do it on.
____ david parsons \bi/ Once the memory detect is happy, more elaborate things \/ can be done with it.
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