On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > with > [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 0000000000097400 (usable) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000097400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000b7fa0000 (usable) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000b7fae000 - 00000000b7fb0000 (usable) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000b7fb0000 - 00000000b7fbe000 (ACPI data) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000b7fbe000 - 00000000b7ff0000 (ACPI NVS) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000b7ff0000 - 00000000b8000000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff700000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000002048000000 (usable) > > got > > 00000100-000973ff : System RAM > 00097400-0009ffff : reserved > 000a0000-000bffff : PCI Bus #00 > 000c0000-000cffff : pnp 00:0c > 000e0000-000fffff : pnp 00:0c > 00100000-b7f9ffff : System RAM > 00200000-00c68f6b : Kernel code > 00c68f6c-01332f7f : Kernel data > 015a6000-01fcaa57 : Kernel bss > 20000000-23ffffff : GART > b7fa0000-b7fadfff : RAM buffer > b7fae000-b7faffff : System RAM > b7fb0000-b7fbdfff : ACPI Tables > b7fbe000-b7feffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage > b7ff0000-b7ffffff : reserved Hmm. That looks correct to me. We filled in that odd area between b7fa0000-b7fadfff that went unmentioned in the e820 tables. And that _is_ a really odd hole. I wonder what it is all about. But the approach does seem to have done the right thing. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html