[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] 440bx RAM calculation fix

Ceri Coburn ceri.coburn at googlemail.com
Wed May 9 18:08:00 CEST 2007


roger wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:54 +0100, Ceri Coburn wrote:
>> Here is a patch for the 440bx RAM calculation size.  The top of RAM
>> was being calculated incorrectly.  
>>
> This patch didn't take correctly here, so I applied it manually and
> created another patch.
> 
> (I can boot as far as "Northbridge prior to SDRAM init:" and then I
> still get random hangs about this point.  Patch doesn't seem to break
> anything here.  Since I'm hacking on my DFI P2XBL w/ w83977tf, I can't
> easily test on my Tyan S1832DL with S1846 profile right now.)

I only noticed issues when elfboot was trying to load the payload.  That 
is how I found the bug.  It was trying to copy the payload to top of 
memory which was 4 times bigger that it should have been

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> Wed May 9 07:49:17 PDT 2007
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