On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:01:23PM -0500, Sudhindra Herle wrote:
> > The BIOS E801 memory reporting is buggy on a lot of these
> > boards. Since the
> > vendors dont appear to care you probably want to pass
> > mem=383M or mem=384M
> > depending if the BIOS uses top of memory for stuff on boot
>
> How would one know if the BIOS uses the upper MB of memory? I poked around
> in the BIOS and most of the "shadow" and "cacheable" things are disabled.
If the BIOS has ACPI support, it uses some blocks in the upper MB of
memory.
> Also, is there someone maintaining a list of such known bugs for
> CPU+motherboard combo? If there is no-one, I'll be happy to maintain the
> list.
If you do, put the IBM ThinkPad 600X on it: BIOS e820 memory reporting
is broken, and the machine puts its ACPI tables at the top of memory,
so you have to use "mem=(installed - 1)M" to use it or otherwise the
first ACPI event crashes the system.
Erik
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