Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:08:30 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected |
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:01:23PM -0500, Sudhindra Herle wrote: > > The BIOS E801 memory reporting is buggy on a lot of these > > boards. Since the > > vendors dont appear to care you probably want to pass > > mem=383M or mem=384M > > depending if the BIOS uses top of memory for stuff on boot > > How would one know if the BIOS uses the upper MB of memory? I poked around > in the BIOS and most of the "shadow" and "cacheable" things are disabled.
If the BIOS has ACPI support, it uses some blocks in the upper MB of memory.
> Also, is there someone maintaining a list of such known bugs for > CPU+motherboard combo? If there is no-one, I'll be happy to maintain the > list.
If you do, put the IBM ThinkPad 600X on it: BIOS e820 memory reporting is broken, and the machine puts its ACPI tables at the top of memory, so you have to use "mem=(installed - 1)M" to use it or otherwise the first ACPI event crashes the system.
Erik
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