From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263811AbTJORpt (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:45:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263812AbTJORps (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:45:48 -0400 Received: from windsormachine.com ([206.48.122.28]:9947 "EHLO router.windsormachine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263811AbTJORpo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:45:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:45:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Dresser To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mem=16MB laptop testing In-Reply-To: <200310151738.55113.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> Message-ID: References: <20031014105514.GH765@holomorphy.com> <20031015132824.GS16158@holomorphy.com> <3F8D52CD.2000909@katana-technology.com> <200310151738.55113.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Thomas Schlichter wrote: > I had one report of a person using mem= to reduce memory size for > a broken i386 chipset thaty only supports 64MB cached and the rest > as mtd/slram device for swap. I got broken as the boundaries changed. The 430FX, HX, VX, and TX ones? There's also some VIA/Ali/etc chipsets of that same era that have cache ram limits as well. Found a good page listing all the limits while looking up info yesterday, from when PC Chips was pirating BIOS code, for a discussion going on over at one of the storagereview.com forums Mike