From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 incorrect memory sizing (without a full BIOS)..
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:41:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031222094110.31d57be9.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031219083148.GF22443@holomorphy.com>
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:31:48 -0800 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
| On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:04:25AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
| > I've got an internal development board based on the Intel 815
| > chipset and the Intel ACSFL mini-BIOS for embedded systems, and then using
| > grub 0.93 to boot Linux.
| > under 2.4 my memory is correctly sized at 256MB, but under 2.6 I'm only
| > seeing 64MB,
| [... e88/e820 snipped ...]
| > So is this 2.6 just being more fussy about the contents of the e820 that
| > my "BIOS" is supplying and falling back to the old style detection?
|
| We've had one other report of something like this. I don't see any
| obvious reason why setup.S should be failing in 2.6; diff below. It
| could be some kind of binutils issue.
|
| Could I get dmesg and .config from 2.4 and 2.5?
Did we ever get these message logs and config files?
--
~Randy
MOTD: Always include version info.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-22 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-19 5:04 Dave Airlie
2003-12-19 8:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-22 17:41 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-12-22 17:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
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