Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Fri Jun 01 2007 - 15:21:45 EST


On Friday, June 1, 2007 12:19:12 Justin Piszcz wrote:
> It works ok on
> my machine (correctly detects the condition, adjusts end_pfn, and keeps
> the machine fast), aside from the fact that X won't start.
>
> But X won't start? :\

Oh yeah, forgot about that. :) Somehow the patch breaks X startup, probably
by doing something bad to the MTRR API... but I don't know what yet.

Jesse
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