[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-10-18 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #39861 (project grub): This appears not to have worked, but that may just mean that I'm not actually running the new, fixed version. Is there an easy way to tell from the grub prompt that I'm running the correct version of grub?

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-10-18 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #39861 (project grub): Please repull latest trunk: there was one other place where it was sanitized. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39861

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-10-18 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #39861 (project grub): Now it works: [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00048000-0x0004] type 12 Thanks! (And thanks for the hint about configure.ac. That wasn't the problem, but it made it more obvious what was going on.)

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-10-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Update of bug #39861 (project grub): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #6: Committed fix. It

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-09-19 Thread Josh Triplett
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #39861 (project grub): While the specs for e820 do indeed say that you should treat unknown types as reserved (in the sense of not touching the memory they refer to), that doesn't mean you should rewrite the table to change those unknown values to reserved. While for

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-08-26 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #39861 (project grub): My board has an NVDIMM, and BIOS reports the NVDIMM mapping as e820 type 12. Stock Linux kernels treat unknown e820 types the same as reserved, and an NVDIMM-enabled kernel will see type 12 memory and use the NVDIMM. Syslinux passes type 12

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-08-26 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #39861 (project grub): Do you have a link to relevant spec? ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39861 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-08-26 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #39861 (project grub): I have the spec, but it's under NDA. I'm not asking grub to implement the spec, though -- I just don't want it getting in the way. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-08-24 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #39861 (project grub): What do these values represent? What are they? Why do you need them? According to ACPI spec treating unknown values differently than reserved is incorrect. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #39861] Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved

2013-08-23 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39861 Summary: Grub2 collapses unknown e820 memory types to reserved Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: amluto Submitted on: Fri 23 Aug 2013 10:56:39 PM GMT Category: Booting