Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:11:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? |
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> I feel, having a silent/transparent workaround is not a good idea. With that > > If enough RAM is chopped off users will notice. They tend to complain > when they miss RAM. I don't like panic very much because for many > users it will be a show stopper (even when they are not blessed > with "quiet" boots like some distributions do) > > The message in dmesg could be also emphasized a bit with a little > ASCII art (but no <blink> tag in there) > > The problem I'm more worried about is if the system will be really > stable --- could it be that the memory controller is still > misconfigured and cause other stability issues? (we've had such > cases in the past). Also I'm not sure we can handle the case of > the MTRR wrong not at the end of memory but at the hole sanely. > > -Andi >
So far I have been booting with mem=8832M and have run stress/loaded the memory subsystem pretty good; what other tests should I run?
It'd be nice if we could pose some sort of solution/warning for the future so other people do not have to experience the same problems.
What are the next steps?
Justin.
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