> I believe what I did was to save a copy of the e820 maps for later,
> and then take then take the first free address as the max of the first
> free address from the user supplied map and the bios supplied map.
> I'll send out a patch on Tuesday.

Here's the changes to setup.c.  I haven't check to see if it's
complete, but I did the diff from a working 2.4.18-kernel.  You need
to apply this patch in arch/i386/kernel.