Don Steber wrote:
> The only effort here was building a
> development kernel because despite what I read to the contrary,
> kernel 2.2.14-5 (redhat's 6.2 production kernel) only recognized
> 64MB of memory on this machine. But I somehow don't think that
Alan, I beg you to backport the new memory detection from 2.3.x to the
next 2.2 release. While I strongly feel this new PC-99 "compliant"
BIOSes (reporting extended memory as 64MB even if the machine has more)
are just plain BIOS bugs, go tell that to the hardware manufacturers.
Almost any new board that comes out today has this problem. I am doing a
lot of Linux work in enterprise environment and I can tell you that this
is being annoyance number 1 and a real obstacle.
I have asked you once to backport memory detection from 2.1.x to 2.0
(and you did) and here I ask again for the same reasons and with the
same arguments.
And yes, I know about kernel arguments, and I believe it is not a Linux
fault, but people can't really accept it when NT on the same machine
detects the memory right. And producing an unofficial patch is not a
solution, because we are talking about abilities of the "official" Linux
kernel here.
Thanks.
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