RE: [patch-2.3.33] memory size on proliant/1600

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:33:02 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> ACPI regions would be of type E820_ACPI and thus skipped automatically.
> However, you are right, on Intel platforms having less than a page of
> memory is like having no memory at all, see patch below. Is this one
> acceptable now?

No, the real answer is to just do "start" and "end" page frame numbers,
and compare the two. Even a page of memory is not actually enough, if it
isn't aligned - so you can never look at size alone.

I have that in my tree already, I'll make a pre-patch soonish (integrating
the USB updates first)

Linus

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