Re: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-16 Thread Alan Cox
> crash and a serious root fs corruption 10 hours after boot? At least > with E820 (if we do not expect to work for all machines) people will see > at boot time that memory was misdetected. Not when the machine reports ROM as writable and other stupidities - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-16 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Alan Cox wrote: > > > 2.2.18-pre with good results on Thinkpad 600x. No adverse consequencies > > (memory is reported correctly, suspend/hibernate work fine). I also had > > a chance to use it on several big SMP and UP servers (where e801 memory > > reporting works fine) Intel, Compaqs and IBM. N

Re: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
> 2.2.18-pre with good results on Thinkpad 600x. No adverse consequencies > (memory is reported correctly, suspend/hibernate work fine). I also had > a chance to use it on several big SMP and UP servers (where e801 memory > reporting works fine) Intel, Compaqs and IBM. No adverse consequencies > e

Re: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-11 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Alan, can we integrate e820 memory detection into 2.2.18 / 2.2.19? The backport (from 2.4) patch is available at http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Memory/2214.fancy.diff . It applies cleanly to 2.2.14-2.2.18pre. I have been using it with 2.2.18-pre with good results on Thinkpad 600x. No adver

Re: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-11 Thread Erik Mouw
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

RE: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-11 Thread Sudhindra Herle
Thanks Alan! In fact, I tested mem=384M and it seems to _not_ crash. So, I assume that it works. > 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 me

Re: K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
> The weird thing is Linux only sees 64MB of RAM! The BIOS sees 384MB of RAM. > I am working around this by saying "mem=384M" on the cmdline. 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 dep

K7 on SD11 and 2.2.17: memory not detected

2000-10-11 Thread Sudhindra Herle
I am running 2.2.17 + reiserfs patches on Athlon-700 on FIC-SD11 with 384MB of RAM. The weird thing is Linux only sees 64MB of RAM! The BIOS sees 384MB of RAM. I am working around this by saying "mem=384M" on the cmdline. Additional h/w include: 3 Quantum 15GB disks, 52x IDE CDROM, Dlink Quad-et