linux-kernel - Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?

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Date:	Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:21:31 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?

On Friday, June 1, 2007 12:19:12 Justin Piszcz wrote:
> It works ok on
> my machine (correctly detects the condition, adjusts end_pfn, and keeps
> the machine fast), aside from the fact that X won't start.
>
> But X won't start? :\

Oh yeah, forgot about that. :)  Somehow the patch breaks X startup, probably 
by doing something bad to the MTRR API... but I don't know what yet.

Jesse 
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