Re: Bugzilla: PCI resource address mismatch

From: Antonino A. Daplas
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 18:31:59 EST


Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:51:15AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Starting from 2.6.13, kernel tries to resolve that sort of conflicts,
> so that prefetch window of the bridge and the framebuffer memory behind
> it get moved to 0x10000000.
> Unfortunately, video BIOS still expects the framebuffer to be at 0xff000000,
> that's why vesafb doesn't work.
>
> Booting with "mem=64M" (or what amount of RAM he has) should fix that,
> as it causes the kernel to ignore e820 entries above 64M.
>

Ben reported that the mem= option worked for him. I presume that this
is the best solution for this problem?

Tony
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