In article <linux.kernel.Pine.A41.4.21.0001051457400.9934-100000@kleopatra.acc.umu.se>,
David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote:
>On 5 Jan 2000, david parsons wrote:
>
>> In article <linux.kernel.20000105022021.C920@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>,
>> Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >More things:
>> >
>> >+ memory detection is broken and may be causing fs corruption
>>
>> There's a patch for memory detection floating around forlornly waiting
>> to be stuffed into the kernel and/or tested by people who have had
>> trouble with memory detection.
>>
>> (It works for me(tm), but I've only got about 20 different bioses in
>> my box farm, and those bioses don't include some of the problematic
>> toshiba and IBM bioses that have been insuffiently cooperative with
>> the earlier version of the e820 patch.)
>
>If those IBM bioses you're talking about are:
>
>a.) IBM Thinkpad
>b.) IBM PS/2
>c.) IBM relatively new desktop-models
One of 'em is a fairly modern IBM Thinkpad (560? 660?), so I'd love to
have you test the patch on every machine you're willing to do it on.
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david parsons \bi/ Once the memory detect is happy, more elaborate things
\/ can be done with it.
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