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Date: 7 Aug 2004 22:22:00 +0200
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
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Subject: Re: x86_64 crashes in 2.6.8-rc3-mm1
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On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:34:19PM +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Have had a bit of an issue here getting before mentioned kernel to boot without 
> using the CONFIG_GART_IOMMU
> 
> What appears to happen is that the amd74xx driver eats all
> memory. 2.6.8-rc3 plus the patches at the bottom applied from the x86_64 patchkit.

Known issue. It's already fixed in x86_64-2.6.8rc3-1, but -mm still
uses the older code base.

Workaround is to not turn off this option.

-Andi