From: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
To: "Robert Hancock" <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:57:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82e4877d0705301757v580a4ca5yebe2a565f0b97552@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Robert Hancock wrote:
> 0-3319MB
> 4096-8832MB
>
> leaving 64MB of memory at the top of RAM uncached. What do you want to
> bet that something important (kernel code?) is getting loaded there..
>
> So essentially it's a BIOS problem, it's not setting up the MTRRs
> properly in order to map all of RAM as cacheable. As Andi says, complain
> to Intel.
>
Could the BADRAM patch be useful for him?
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/download.html has 2.6.21 version.
It says it supports x86_64. May be using this patch he can exclude
that RAM from being used/accessed?
Parag
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 0:57 Parag Warudkar [this message]
2007-05-31 4:38 ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-31 12:33 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-05-31 12:49 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-05-31 13:08 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-05-31 14:27 ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-31 18:44 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 16:33 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 17:57 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 18:10 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 20:56 ` Robert Hancock
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2007-05-30 23:29 ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-31 4:56 ` Yinghai Lu
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2007-05-30 4:08 ` Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards Robert Hancock
2007-05-30 8:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-05-30 14:27 ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-30 14:33 ` Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG) Justin Piszcz
2007-05-30 14:36 ` Justin Piszcz
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