Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up | Date | 11 Jul 1997 22:02:31 GMT |
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Followup to: <19970711222654.18698@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> By author: Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Please talk to me about this offline. I'm the author of the 2.0.30 > > memory detection code. I think what's happening is the that Compaq > > BIOS reports only 16MB of RAM for the int 15h, ah=0x88 BIOS call on > > the Compaq. The fix for this is to change the BIOS detection code to > > use the 0xe801 call first, and then fallback if this fails. > > Are you sure 0xe801 won't crash on bioses that don't implement > it? I.e., mostly on ancient 386's ? ... but probably the best thing > will be to test it in the 2.1 kernels before putting it to the > mainstream ones. >
This has been in 2.1 for quite a while. In fact, there are also two new BIOS calls (one being int 0x15:0xe820) that may be considered...
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