Re: [PATCH] Make x86 latest boot with non-discontig boxes

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 09:22:07 EST


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Glauber Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Commit 0596152388e234efebce464355186ad9e16c8cb6 broke my box, since it
>> removes completely the call to memory_present() at e820 setup.
>>
>> It seems to be really not needed with discontig memory, but with flat
>> and sparse, I get an early crash. The proposed patch moves the call
>> memory_present() to setup_memory, the one present in setup_32.c.
>
> thanks for tracking it down. Could you check whether the latest
> x86/master tree works fine now?

boots beautifully.

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