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

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > So the only safe thing we can do is not use memory that is not
> > write-back cached.  That we can positively detect and is a
> > conservative action so if anything will work that will.
>
> Jesse wrote such a patch (or rather it limitted end_pfn), but it broke
> the X server for so far unknown reasons.
>
> -Andi

So the best solution is for a patch/function that calculates the E820 
memory map subtracts the non-cached memory and does the equivilant of 
append= in LILO config with the proper amount of memory?

Justin.
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