Re: [PATCH] [resend] intel_agp: Don't oops with zero stolen memory

From: Eric Anholt
Date: Thu Jul 01 2010 - 18:44:47 EST


On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:13:52 +0200, Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When "onboard video memory" is set do "disabled" in BIOS on Asus P4P800-VM
> board (i865G), kernel oopses with memory corruption:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28430
>
> Fix that by cleanly aborting the initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I haven't seen a system with that option before. Is the integrated
graphics still supposed to work at that point, or is it "graphics is
disabled."? What do other OSes do here?

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