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:	Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:18:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.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?

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

>> 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
>

So the best solution is for a patch/function that calculates the E820 
memory map subtracts the non-cached memory and does the equivilant of 
append= in LILO config with the proper amount of memory?

Justin.
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