[coreboot] [dbm690t] The new acpi table doesn't seem to be correct.

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Thu Jun 4 08:59:17 CEST 2009


Am 04.06.2009 04:41, schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
> I found the HIGH_TABLES bug on the DBM690T.
>
> The K8 HIGH_TABLES code places these tables in UMA video memory. Of
> course that memory is cleared by some payloads and operating systems.
>
> However, if I fix that, Linux still crashes during boot because it only
> sees 32 MB instead of 2 MB RAM.
>    
Unless you're using SeaBIOS, you have to use both HAVE_HIGH_TABLES and 
HAVE_LOW_TABLES to have things work, otherwise the high tables aren't found.
32 MB is a good sign that the tables weren't found, so FILO (I think) 
defaults to "safe" 32MB.




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