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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0 incorrect memory sizing (without a full BIOS)..
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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?

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~Randy
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