Re: Memory probing fails after 2.6.30 (bisected)

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sat Jan 09 2010 - 18:03:49 EST


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Success!
>
> yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx said:
>> can you try to revert some e820 detect patch?
>>
>> bca23db: x86, setup: revert ACPI 3 E820 extended attributes support
>> df7699c: x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code
>> cd67059: x86, setup: guard against pre-ACPI 3 e820 code not updating %ecx
>> c549e71: x86, setup: ACPI 3, BIOS workaround for E820-probing code
>
> Starting at 33-rc3, reverting the above 4 commits cumulatively, brings back my
> e820 table.
>
> I have no idea how to fix c549e71 so it don't break on my system.
>
> This is a hp nc6400 laptop, btw.

so it mean bca23db the reverting for c49e71 etc is not right?

YH
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