Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:29:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:29:32 -0500 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:30362 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:29:32 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:38:36 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: William Lee Irwin III , Hugh Dickins cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , rpjday@mindspring.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: test suite? Message-ID: <73470000.1043537913@titus> In-Reply-To: <20030125232306.GZ780@holomorphy.com> References:

<20030125232306.GZ780@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > It's actually a relatively annoying limit, as various boxen's MP tables > ACPI tables etc. etc. are well above 8MB. At some point one of us should > quash that issue permanently and dynamically map the things. IIRC Linux > needs NUMA-Q boxen to get lynxers reflashed to move MP tables below 8MB > to boot atm. mbligh can more accurate describe the pain involved there. > As for the bzImage, don't bother supporting excess bloat. One of these days, I just need to make it remap the MPS tables with set_fixmap instead, would be a damned sight easier. Was quicker just to hack the firmware at the time, but it's not the RightThingToDo. M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/