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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:58:47 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@...onnor.net> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Stefan Reinauer <stepan@...esystems.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, coreboot@...eboot.org, Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org> Subject: Re: MPTable can not be high-memory on Linux * Kevin O'Connor <kevin@...onnor.net> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:33:35PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > [...] > > >>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000090000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > > >>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f7f0000 (usable) > > >>> BIOS-e820: 000000003f7f0000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) > [...] > > >>> found SMP MP-table at [c00f9fc0] 000f9fc0 > [...] > > > > that should work for a long time. > > > > 0xf9fc0 < 1M is quite < max_low_pfn, so wonder why bootmem could panic. > > On this machine the mptable "floating" structure is at > 0xf9fc0. It points to the rest of the table which is in the > 0x3f7f0000 area. > > Note, that this is on a Coreboot+SeaBIOS machine - so we can > change the bios. However, the mptable spec does allow for > part of the table to be high memory. yes, and i'd prefer if it worked fine even if it's that high. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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