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Message-ID: <20070927231552.GC4755@cosmic.amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:15:52 -0600
From:	"Jordan Crouse" <jordan.crouse@....com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	jkeating@...hat.com, "Joerg Pommnitz" <pommnitz@...oo.com>,
	"Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: More E820 brokenness

On 27/09/07 15:47 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > 
> > Breaks on the Geode - original behavior.
> > 
> > I think that having boot_prams.e820_entries != 0 makes the kernel
> > assume the e820 data is correct.
> > 
> 
> Okay, now I'm utterly baffled how 2.6.22 ever worked on this Geode,
> because this, to the best of my reading, mimics the 2.6.22 behavior
> exactly.  DID IT REALLY, and/or did you make any kind of configuration
> changes?

I copied in a 2.6.22 kernel to see that it really did work, and it did.
But here's the crazy part - I did a dmesg, and it looks like it
*is* using e820 data, and it looks complete (I see the entire map - 
including the ACPI and reserved blocks way up high).

So apparently it was the 2.6.22 code that was buggy, but reading it,
I don't immediately see how. 

Jordan
-- 
Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.


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