does stefan put the mptable in first 1K? good way is put mptable 0xf0000:0x100000.
YH On 1/7/06, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > MPTABLE in LinuxBIOS is put from 0x20, if the system has too many cpu > > and devices (slots) the mptable will get bigger than 0x464, so it > > will use 0x40:67.... > > Then you or someone moved it. The base in low memory was originally > at 0x500, to avoid just these kinds of problems. > > > We need to put mptable to [0xf0000:0x100000] together with acpi > > tables. > > Or move it up a few bytes. > > > and if it is bigger than 64k, then we have to put it on special > > postion ...from 1K, and pass the posstion of mptable to the kernel via > > command line. > > > > I will update the code in LinuxBIOS. > > Thanks. It is always a good idea not to assign legacy regions of the > address space new meanings. > > 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/ > -- LinuxBIOS mailing list LinuxBIOS@openbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
