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Message-ID: <20070605094623.GA23274@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:46:23 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.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?
> So the only safe thing we can do is not use memory that is not
> write-back cached. That we can positively detect and is a
> conservative action so if anything will work that will.
Jesse wrote such a patch (or rather it limitted end_pfn), but it broke
the X server for so far unknown reasons.
-Andi
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