Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266138AbUAGF61 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:58:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266139AbUAGF61 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:58:27 -0500 Received: from delerium.codemonkey.org.uk ([81.187.208.145]:22194 "EHLO delerium.codemonkey.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266138AbUAGF60 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:58:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:55:57 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adam Belay , Mika Penttil? , Andi Kleen , David Hinds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "Grover, Andrew" Subject: Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM Message-ID: <20040107055557.GA13812@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Adam Belay , Mika Penttil? , Andi Kleen , David Hinds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "Grover, Andrew" References: <20040106081203.GA44540@colin2.muc.de> <3FFA7BB9.1030803@kolumbus.fi> <20040106094442.GB44540@colin2.muc.de> <20040106153706.GA63471@colin2.muc.de> <20040106222959.GA3188@neo.rr.com> <20040107050256.GA4351@colin2.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040107050256.GA4351@colin2.muc.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 781 Lines: 20 On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:02:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > 5.) Look into other ways of finding out if the PnPBIOS might be buggy, > > > currently we only have DMI. > > > Any others? > > We could use the exception mechanism, and try to fix up any BIOS errors. > > That would require: > > [...] It would not work for x86-64 unfortunately where you cannot do > any BIOS calls after the system is running (it would only be possible > early in boot) Why on earth would you want to call PNPBIOS on AMD64 anyway ? Dave - 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/