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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	rpjday@mindspring.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: test suite?
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:38:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73470000.1043537913@titus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030125232306.GZ780@holomorphy.com>

> It's actually a relatively annoying limit, as various boxen's MP tables
> ACPI tables etc. etc. are well above 8MB. At some point one of us should
> quash that issue permanently and dynamically map the things. IIRC Linux
> needs NUMA-Q boxen to get lynxers reflashed to move MP tables below 8MB
> to boot atm. mbligh can more accurate describe the pain involved there.
> As for the bzImage, don't bother supporting excess bloat.

One of these days, I just need to make it remap the MPS tables with
set_fixmap instead, would be a damned sight easier. Was quicker just
to hack the firmware at the time, but it's not the RightThingToDo.

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-25 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2003-01-24 17:18 ` test suite? Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-25  1:53   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-25 20:22     ` Hugh Dickins
2003-01-25 22:24       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-25 23:23       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-25 23:38         ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-01-22 13:44 Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-22 15:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-22 16:20   ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-22 16:28 ` Cliff White
2003-01-22 17:34 ` Adrian Bunk

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