From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: jkeating@redhat.com, Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>,
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: More E820 brokenness
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:22:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FC3B27.5090001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070927231552.GC4755@cosmic.amd.com>
Jordan Crouse wrote:
>
> I copied in a 2.6.22 kernel to see that it really did work, and it did.
> But here's the crazy part - I did a dmesg, and it looks like it
> *is* using e820 data, and it looks complete (I see the entire map -
> including the ACPI and reserved blocks way up high).
>
> So apparently it was the 2.6.22 code that was buggy, but reading it,
> I don't immediately see how.
>
Was this a stock 2.6.22 kernel, or might it have been modified?
There is, of course, also the possibility that triggering the BIOS bug
in your case depends on some delicate combination of input state.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 22:17 More E820 brokenness H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-27 22:33 ` Jordan Crouse
2007-09-27 22:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-27 23:15 ` Jordan Crouse
2007-09-27 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-09-27 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-27 23:34 ` Jordan Crouse
2007-09-27 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-27 23:54 ` Jordan Crouse
2007-09-28 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-28 13:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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