Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:18:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? |
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> So the only safe thing we can do is not use memory that is not >> write-back cached. That we can positively detect and is a >> conservative action so if anything will work that will. > > Jesse wrote such a patch (or rather it limitted end_pfn), but it broke > the X server for so far unknown reasons. > > -Andi >
So the best solution is for a patch/function that calculates the E820 memory map subtracts the non-cached memory and does the equivilant of append= in LILO config with the proper amount of memory?
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