Re: 2.6.16-rc5 huge memory detection regression

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 10:29:13 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:31 +0100, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> copy_e820_map() start: 0000000100000000 size: 0000000230000000 end: 0000000330000000 type: 1
> copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM

copy_e820_map() is really the first place that the kernel sees what the
BIOS has put in the e820 map. Since something is wrong _this_ early, I
really have to point the finger at the hardware again. It simply didn't
tell Linux that there was RAM there.

-- Dave

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