Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 May 2010 21:58:51 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent reserving RAM in the region already reserved by BIOS | From | Mathieu Rondonneau <> |
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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Mathieu Rondonneau <mathieu.rondonneau@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> On Wed, 19 May 2010 17:01:41 -0700 >> Mathieu Rondonneau <mathieu.rondonneau@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> it' s not in ISA space. >>> once loading the NVIDIA driver, the warnign oops shows up. >>> 4K starting at 0x9f800 (i.e. to 0xa007ff) overlap with the ISA space >>> (starting at 0xa0000). >> >> If this is the proprietary Nvidia driver you need to take the matter up >> with Nvidia. I assume they are trying to remap chunks of the EBA for some >> reason. >> >> And please can you not top post to this list, it makes it very hard to >> follow when you are replying in a different order to everyone else. >> >> Alan >> > > Thanks Alan, I will post on NVIDIA forum. Thanks for the feedback. > > Yinghai, your patch had some missing parameter for the sanitize function. > It does fixes the bios side (/proc/iomem) that now shows only aligned sections. > But it does not prevent the Nvidia driver to try to allocate on non-4K > align (i.e. if this is what' s happening). > > Thanks for the help, > -Mathieu >
Found on Nvidia forum that they are aware of the problem. They said that this will be fixed in the next driver version.
-Mathieu
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