Re: [coreboot] FW: Two test result(linux+2G-RAM>10minutes and install ubuntu8.10) of vx800 patch

[Rudolf Marek]

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 11:33:02AM +0800, [e-mail] wrote:
> > My VX800 bug of "boot linux with 2G mem >10 minutes" has been proved to
> > be the problem of MTRR setting.  Thanks for Carldani, Rudolf and Bari.
> > 1 The root cause is:
> > The free memory I report to coreboot through ram_resource is [0,
> >
> > 1983M=2G-64M(Framebuffer)-1M(TOP 1M SM Memory)].  If I report [0,
> > 1984M=2G-64M(Framebuffer)], then all is OK.
>
> Is "SM Memory" the memory used by System Management Mode?  Shouldn't
> this memory be cached anyway?

This depends on CPU imho.

R.
> -Kevin