Re: New new enhanced memory detection patch; testers wanted

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Feb 1999 11:01:11 GMT

Followup to: <7am09p$uhe@pell.pell.portland.or.us>
By author: o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The memory detect scheme I wrote for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.x has become
> obsolete. Since I wrote it, many many bioses have stopped supporting
> int 15h, 0e801h for extended memory detection and instead gone over to
> int 15h, 0e820h. So, I've tweaked my memory detect patch to use 0e820
> as well as 0e801 and 088
>

Which BIOSes would that be?? That seems quite odd -- you don't just
discontinue something like that.

-hpa

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