Re: Intel BIOS - Corrupted low memory at ffff880000004200

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jul 10 2009 - 08:05:55 EST


On Wed 2009-07-08 12:39:49, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:24:47PM +0200, Alexey Fisher wrote:
> > Hallo Ingo, Richard.
> >
> > I'm getting "Corrupted low memory" trace with my Intel DG45ID board
> > after resume. This board has different dmi-bios-vendor... so probably
> > it will be nice to have it in your patch.
>
> I'm beginning to think that we should be doing this on all hardware,
> perhaps with a kernel option to disable it for embedded devices that
> really need that 64K. The low-memory corruption issue seems to be very
> widespread.

Well, maybe it would be better to make suspen/resume part of firmware
testing kit or something... and push intel to fix their bios.

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