Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for2.6.16-rc5

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - It would be nice to get Martin MOKREJ
>   <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'s full 16GB recognised again.  Dave
>   Hansen is working on that. 

Martin, please step in here if your problem has come back...

After Martin applied my debugging patch, the problem went away.  Last I
heard, he was going to boot back into a kernel without my patch to see
if it stayed fixed.

My guess is that it is be a screwy BIOS that is causing the problem
intermittently.  Otherwise, I can't imagine how some printks could
affect the problem.  It's not like this is happening in code where there
are SMP races.

I also checked around the office a bit to see if anyone else was having
memory detection issues on large memory x86 machines.  No luck.  I'd put
this into the "unreproducible" bucket for now.

-- Dave

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