Robert Hancock wrote:
0-3319MB 4096-8832MB leaving 64MB of memory at the top of RAM uncached. What do you want to bet that something important (kernel code?) is getting loaded there.. So essentially it's a BIOS problem, it's not setting up the MTRRs properly in order to map all of RAM as cacheable. As Andi says, complain to Intel.
Could the BADRAM patch be useful for him? http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/download.html has 2.6.21 version. It says it supports x86_64. May be using this patch he can exclude that RAM from being used/accessed? Parag -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/