From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:58:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:57:57 -0500 Received: from river.it.gvsu.edu ([148.61.1.16]:63694 "EHLO river.it.gvsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:57:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3A78D0A1.9070100@lycosmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:57:37 -0500 From: Adam Schrotenboer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010105 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dunlap, Randy" CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dunlap, Randy wrote: >> From: Adam Schrotenboer [mailto:ajschrotenboer@lycosmail.com] >> >>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:01:08 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: >>> >>>>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:25:22 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> ... >>>>>> Linux version 2.4.1 (root@tabriel) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 >>>>> >>>> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Tue Jan 30 >>> >> 15:35:21 EST 2001 >> >>>>>> BIOS-provided physical RAM map: >>>>>> BIOS-88: 000000000009f000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) >>>>>> BIOS-88: 0000000003ff0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) >>>>>> On node 0 totalpages: 16624 >>>>> >>>> ... >>>> Linux version 2.4.0 (root@tabriel) (gcc version >>> >> pgcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #2 Mon Jan 8 09:02:27 EST 2001 >> >>>> BIOS-provided physical RAM map: >>>> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) >>>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) >>>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved) >>>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) >>>> BIOS-e820: 000000000bef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) >>>> BIOS-e820: 000000000000d000 @ 000000000bff3000 (ACPI data) >>>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000003000 @ 000000000bff0000 (ACPI NVS) >>>> On node 0 totalpages: 49136 >>> >> It did it again. fresh tree, egcs 1.1.2, etc > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Different versions of gcc were used on 2.4.0 vs. 2.4.1. > Were different versions of as also used? (hint?) > > Or somehow in linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S, your source > file has > #define STANDARD_MEMORY_BIOS_CALL > ? > > ~Randy / 503-677-5408 > granted, it is possible that a different gas was used, but extremely unlikely. I have been known to build my own compilers (need to try libc some time), but haven't played around w/ binutils. box is Redhat 6.[01]? upped to Mandrake 7.1 a month ago. haven't installed any new compilers lately, I think that 2.4.1 makefile is different, selects diff compiler (haven't found out the differences btwn Mandrake and RedHat yet) grepped sources for that #define; did not find anywhere Sorry for bad grammar, usually not this bad, very very tired, can't make fingers type straight half the time. currently running 2.4.1 rebuilt with mem=192M. Hope this is resolved soon. Also will consider trying to specify compiler to be same as 2.4.0 build (not likely a good idea, given that pgcc 2.95.x borks 2.4.1 [fxsr_alignment IIRC]) Also will look for different as executables. BTW, pgcc above is actually 2.95.3, not 2.95.2 I'm rambling and need sleep. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/