Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 20:57:41 -0400 | From | "Parag Warudkar" <> | Subject | Re: Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG) |
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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?
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