Quoting Corey Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > aaron lwe wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I'm terribly sorry that I just found I've mistakenly configured the >> dram MA Map Type, and now memtest >> showed no errors. But I still have to reduce the mem size when >> reporting to system through ram_resource >> or filo couldn't be started. I have disabled the integrated graphics >> card and the agp, so I don't think the top >> memory should be reserved for frame buffer. > > And now you're where I am. For some reason there's a reserved memory > range _somewhere_ at the tolm, of some unknown size. I've found that > reserving an extra 1MB doesn't work, but 32MB does. I've found nothing > in the documentation I have to explain this. BTW, have you had to make > any code changes other than the MA Map, and board-specific fixes? I'm > wondering how generic that code really is. > > -Corey > Hmm. I think this also is true with some Intel chipsets. Even without graphics enabled there has to be some kind of reserved memory space just below tolm (the smallest I was sucessfull with was 1MB) or filo chokes. Doesn't LB allocate a bounce buffer just before the payload starts? Is this bounce buffer just below tolm??
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