"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> - I know of one system that had BIOS tables at 16MB I believe (and >> thus had a fairly low hole). >> > > Please name names, otherwise this is just rumouring. Seriously. We have > enough > cargo-cult programming as it is.
The unisys systems. I don't remember exactly where they put there ACPI tables but it was low enough that the default address for the kdump kernels conflicted with it. So this is likely 16MB or 32MB > A lot of old ISA systems had an option to put a memory hole at 15-16 MB to > support ISA video cards with linear frame buffer. It very rarely got used, > since VLB took over around the same time. No this was a much larger and more modern system. Eric - 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/
