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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:56:09 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Joshua Hoblitt <josh@hoblitt.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of
	16gb of memory is usable
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> i've tidied up your patch (see the commit below) and have queued it up 
> in x86/urgent. It seems fairly safe and i guess we can push it to 
> v2.6.27 if Joshua reports test success. Joshua, could you give it a go 
> please?

or just try the latest tip/master - please check whether you are getting 
the right amount of RAM out of box plus this warning message:

> WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");

	Ingo