On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:19:15PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART before allocate aperture > > For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more > than 4G RAM installed. when mem is allocated for GART, it will do > the memset for clear. and for kexec case, the first kernel already > enable that, the memset in second kernel will cause the system > restart. So disable that at first before we try to allocate mem for > it.
Why does the memset in the second kernel cause a system restart? Cheers, Muli - 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/