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* Re: Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG)
@ 2007-05-31  0:57 Parag Warudkar
  2007-05-31  4:38 ` Robert Hancock
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Parag Warudkar @ 2007-05-31  0:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Hancock, jpiszcz, linux-kernel

Robert Hancock wrote:


> 0-3319MB
> 4096-8832MB
>
> leaving 64MB of memory at the top of RAM uncached. What do you want to
> bet that something important (kernel code?) is getting loaded there..
>
> So essentially it's a BIOS problem, it's not setting up the MTRRs
> properly in order to map all of RAM as cacheable. As Andi says, complain
> to Intel.
>

Could the BADRAM patch be useful for him?
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/download.html has 2.6.21 version.
It says it supports x86_64. May be using this patch he can exclude
that RAM from being used/accessed?

Parag
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2007-05-31  0:57 Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG) Parag Warudkar
2007-05-31  4:38 ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-31 12:33   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-05-31 12:49   ` Parag Warudkar
2007-05-31 13:08     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-05-31 14:27       ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-31 18:44         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 16:33   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 17:57     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 18:10       ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 20:56     ` Robert Hancock
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2007-05-30 23:29           ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-31  4:56             ` Yinghai Lu
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2007-05-30  4:08 ` Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards Robert Hancock
2007-05-30  8:43   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-05-30 14:27     ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-30 14:33       ` Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG) Justin Piszcz
2007-05-30 14:36         ` Justin Piszcz

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