2001-02-02 16:33:04

by Dunlap, Randy

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Subject: RE: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

> From: Rogerio Brito [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> While I don't have problems with the Duron above, I do have a
> 486 here with 8MB of memory that I intend to use as a router
> for my local LAN, but 2.4.0 only recognizes 7MB, while 2.2.18
> recognizes all 8MB. Under 2.4.0 (I haven't tried 2.4.1 yet), I
> used a mem=8M option and it worked fine, but I don't know if
> this is indeed safe or not (I'd guess that it would be, since
> the 2.2 kernels use all memory, but you never know).

Fixed in 2.4.1 and its pre-patches.

~Randy


2001-02-05 03:00:56

by Rogerio Brito

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Subject: Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

On Feb 02 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> > From: Rogerio Brito [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > While I don't have problems with the Duron above, I do have a
> > 486 here with 8MB of memory that I intend to use as a router
> > for my local LAN, but 2.4.0 only recognizes 7MB, while 2.2.18
> > recognizes all 8MB.
>
> Fixed in 2.4.1 and its pre-patches.

Thank you very much, Randy. I'll compile 2.4.1 or anything
newer than this and I'll report back my results.


Thank you very much again, Roger...

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