linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make x86 latest boot with non-discontig boxes

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Message-ID: <20080604103637.GA2837@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:36:37 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Glauber Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make x86 latest boot with non-discontig boxes


* Glauber Costa <gcosta@...hat.com> wrote:

> Commit 0596152388e234efebce464355186ad9e16c8cb6 broke my box, since it 
> removes completely the call to memory_present() at e820 setup.
> 
> It seems to be really not needed with discontig memory, but with flat 
> and sparse, I get an early crash. The proposed patch moves the call 
> memory_present() to setup_memory, the one present in setup_32.c.

thanks for tracking it down. Could you check whether the latest 
x86/master tree works fine now?

	Ingo
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