From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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?
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:46:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070605094623.GA23274@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ejkrw576.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
> So the only safe thing we can do is not use memory that is not
> write-back cached. That we can positively detect and is a
> conservative action so if anything will work that will.
Jesse wrote such a patch (or rather it limitted end_pfn), but it broke
the X server for so far unknown reasons.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-05 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 18:14 Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 19:17 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:19 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:19 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:26 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 21:07 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 21:35 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02 1:05 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-06-02 1:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02 8:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-02 9:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-02 20:11 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-03 9:15 ` Matt Keenan
2007-06-04 15:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 15:48 ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:49 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 16:01 ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 18:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 18:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-04 18:22 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:08 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:17 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 19:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-04 21:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05 0:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-05 1:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05 9:46 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-05 13:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-05 17:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-07 8:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:24 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? II Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 0:54 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Yinghai Lu
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