From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:38:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001217163802.O2589@garloff.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E147MkJ-00036t-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20001217125656.A309@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20001217125656.A309@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>; from kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:56:56PM +0200
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Hi,
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> I guess the new memory detect does not work correctly with my old work
> horse. It is a 100 MHz pentium with 56 Megs RAM. AMIBIOS dated 10/10/94 with
> a version number of 51-000-0001169_00111111-101094-SIS550X-H.
>
> 2.2.18 reports:
> Memory: 55536k/57344k available (624k kernel code, 412k reserved, 732k data, 40k init)
>
> 2.2.19pre2 reports:
> Memory: 53000k/54784k available (628k kernel code, 408k reserved, 708k data, 40k init)
>
> 57344k is 56 Megs which is correct.
> 54784k is only 53.5 Megs.
It's this patch that changes things for you:
o E820 memory detect backport from 2.4 (Michael Chen)
The E820 memory detection parses a list from the BIOS, which specifies
the amount of memory, holes, reserved regions, ...
Apparently, your BIOS does not do it completely correctly; otherwise you
should have had crashes before ...
Regards,
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Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-17 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-16 19:11 Linux 2.2.19pre2 Alan Cox
2000-12-17 10:56 ` Petri Kaukasoina
2000-12-17 15:38 ` Kurt Garloff [this message]
2000-12-20 10:32 ` Petri Kaukasoina
2000-12-20 10:44 ` Kurt Garloff
2000-12-20 13:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-20 14:57 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-20 15:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-20 17:48 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-20 18:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-21 10:38 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-21 15:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-21 17:07 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-21 17:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-21 17:55 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-22 7:33 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-22 13:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-23 6:56 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-23 18:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-24 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-24 0:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-24 2:28 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-24 4:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-24 5:17 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-24 14:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-24 15:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-29 17:09 ` wake-one-3 bug (affected 2.2.19pre3aa[123]) Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-21 20:23 ` Linux 2.2.19pre2 Andrea Arcangeli
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