Re: More E820 brokenness

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Jordan Crouse wrote:
> 
> Breaks on the Geode - original behavior.
> 
> I think that having boot_prams.e820_entries != 0 makes the kernel
> assume the e820 data is correct.
> 

Okay, now I'm utterly baffled how 2.6.22 ever worked on this Geode,
because this, to the best of my reading, mimics the 2.6.22 behavior
exactly.  DID IT REALLY, and/or did you make any kind of configuration
changes?

>> I want to emphasize that this is seriously broken.  Using a partial e820
>> map could have disastrous results, since the kernel will have partial
>> memory map information and not know about reserved areas, etc.  Part of
>> me feels that the right thing to do is what the current git kernel does
>> -- either fall back to e801, or stop and error.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree.  

Arguably the right thing to do is to find the responsible BIOS engineer
and shoot them, but that's hard to do without robotics.

	-hpa



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