Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

[Larry Sendlosky <lsendlosky@katana-technology.com>]

Changeset 1.403.15.8 2002/6/05 davej@suse.de
[PATCH] large x86 setup cleanup.

Patrick Mochel did a great job here at splitting up some of the larger
messy parts of arch/i386/kernel/setup.c, and introduced a nice abstraction
which gives us a much nicer way to ensure we can add workarounds for vendor
specific bugs / features without polluting other vendor code paths.

Mark Haverkamp also brought this up to date for merging in my tree circa
2.5.14, and asides from 1-2 now fixed small thinkos, there haven't been
any problems.

This also features a workaround for an errata item on stepping C0 of
the Intel Pentium 4 Xeon, which isn't in your tree yet, where we must
disable the hardware prefetcher to ensure sane operation.

arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 1.41.1.16 2002/06/03 10:10:19 davej@suse.de
large x86 setup cleanup.




William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:20:54PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
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>>Do you want to say that calculation is different, already? We should
>>probably make 2.5 version match 2.4 version, that's what users
>>expect. Who changed it and why?
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>No idea when it changed, but I was at least duly disturbed by the tiny
>384KB ZONE_NORMAL materializing out of thin air when I booted mem=16m.
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>-- wli
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