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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: babina@pex.net (John Babina III)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux kernel mailing list)
Subject: Re: Update: 2.2.15 SMP problem...
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:56:39 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13qiSW-0008Fc-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0010311531060.17340-100000@pioneer.local.net> from "John Babina III" at Oct 31, 2000 03:41:59 PM

> how much memory you have, is there any patch I can put into a 2.2.x kernel
> or a program to run after bootup to find out the max MEM= setting which is
> appropriate, without having to do blind tests changing the amount until it
> crashes?

There is a patch for E820 memory detection that Orc posted. I've not merged it
because last time I checked it lacked the sanity checks the 2.4 code has to
catch BIOSes that lie.

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2000-10-31 20:41 John Babina III
2000-10-31 20:56 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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