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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Message-ID: <20070604201823.7b7cb328@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:18:23 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, 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?

> Therefore, they are NOT going to fix their BIOS-- and I have already 
> received an e-mail from one or two people who are experiencing this 
> problem, I presume it will only get worse.

In which case we need to clip the memory used according to the MTRR
registers and tell the user xxMB of memory not available due to BIOS bugs

Alan
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