david parsons wrote:
>
> This is the assembly-side (with throwaway kernel-side scaffolding) of
> the e820 detection +merge/paranoia/etc patch that I wrote and Nathan
> Zook and I have been batting around like an electronic shuttlecock for
> the past few weeks. Redhat hates me(tm), so the patch won't apply on
> a his machine anymore. Anyone here want to commit the supreme
> sacrifice and test it out on their 2.3.39 (or 2.3.38,2.3.37,2.3.36;
> the patch hasn't changed much for a while) machines to see if e820 (a)
> works and (b) doesn't say that bogus memory segments are real ones?
>
Works fine for me.
Linux version 2.3.40 (root@home) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #2 Sat
Jan 15 18:53:40 GMT 2000
SMAP: 0000000000 - 000009fc00 (usable)
SMAP: 000009fc00 - 00000a0000 (usable)
SMAP: 00000f0000 - 0000100000 (reserved)
SMAP: 00ffff0000 - 0100000000 (reserved)
SMAP: 0000100000 - 0007ff0000 (usable)
SMAP: 0007ff0800 - 0008000000 (ACPI data)
SMAP: 0007ff0000 - 0007ff0800 (ACPI NVS)
On node 0 totalpages: 00008000
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28672 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Initializing CPU#0
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