From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>,
Mika Penttil? <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Subject: Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM
Date: 7 Jan 2004 06:02:56 +0100
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 06:02:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040107050256.GA4351@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401062000490.12602@home.osdl.org>
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:06:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Adam Belay 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)
My hope was actually that there is some ACPI mechanism to do all this,
but I haven't done much research in this area yet.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-01-06 3:32 ` PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 3:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 4:05 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 5:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 8:12 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 9:11 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-06 9:44 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 10:16 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-06 10:49 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 15:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 15:37 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 22:29 ` Adam Belay
2004-01-07 4:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 5:02 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-01-07 5:55 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-07 6:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 6:08 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-07 6:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 6:51 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-07 2:43 ` Adam Belay
2004-01-07 8:32 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-06 22:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 4:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 15:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 17:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-08 19:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 9:31 ` Russell King
2004-01-07 15:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 20:29 ` Russell King
2004-01-06 22:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-05 20:07 David Hinds
2004-01-05 23:00 ` Russell King
2004-01-05 23:45 ` David Hinds
2004-01-06 0:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 0:44 ` David Hinds
2004-01-06 1:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
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