Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761562AbXFDTNw (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:13:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761295AbXFDTNe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:13:34 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:55116 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760624AbXFDTNd (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:13:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:18:23 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Justin Piszcz Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Jesse Barnes , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Message-ID: <20070604201823.7b7cb328@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <200706011407.51779.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <20070601211943.GO7217@one.firstfloor.org> <200706011441.57149.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 581 Lines: 13 > Therefore, they are NOT going to fix their BIOS-- and I have already > received an e-mail from one or two people who are experiencing this > problem, I presume it will only get worse. In which case we need to clip the memory used according to the MTRR registers and tell the user xxMB of memory not available due to BIOS bugs Alan - 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/