From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755410Ab0ETMGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 08:06:18 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:48539 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752944Ab0ETMGR (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 08:06:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:12:30 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Mathieu Rondonneau Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent reserving RAM in the region already reserved by BIOS Message-ID: <20100520131230.41a99489@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4BF42296.1030905@oracle.com> <4BF4235D.3080904@zytor.com> <4BF46D9B.4090806@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 19 May 2010 17:01:41 -0700 Mathieu Rondonneau wrote: > it' s not in ISA space. > once loading the NVIDIA driver, the warnign oops shows up. > 4K starting at 0x9f800 (i.e. to 0xa007ff) overlap with the ISA space > (starting at 0xa0000). If this is the proprietary Nvidia driver you need to take the matter up with Nvidia. I assume they are trying to remap chunks of the EBA for some reason. And please can you not top post to this list, it makes it very hard to follow when you are replying in a different order to everyone else. Alan