Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 27/09/07 15:47 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Jordan Crouse wrote: >>> Breaks on the Geode - original behavior. >>> >>> I think that having boot_prams.e820_entries != 0 makes the kernel >>> assume the e820 data is correct. >>> >> Okay, now I'm utterly baffled how 2.6.22 ever worked on this Geode, >> because this, to the best of my reading, mimics the 2.6.22 behavior >> exactly. DID IT REALLY, and/or did you make any kind of configuration >> changes? > > 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. > Oh bugger, looks like this one might be genuinely my fault after all. The ID check in the new code is buggy. Can you please test this revised patch out (against current -git)? -hpa