Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3

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To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...>

Cc: Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, LKML <linux-kernel@...>, Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...>, <balajirrao@...>, Andi Kleen <andi@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3

Date: Monday, April 28, 2008 - 3:46 pm

Yinghai Lu wrote:
quoted text> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Mika Fischer wrote:
>>  > Hi Ingo,
>>  >
>>  > I'm having the same problem.
>>  >
>>  > Ingo Molnar schrieb:
>>  >> excellent. So just to make sure: this box never had proper graphics
>>  >> under Linux (under no previous kernel), due to the way the BIOS has set
>>  >> up the MTRR's, right?
>>  >
>>  > Well, not quite. X still works fine, but since the video memory is
>>  > overlapped by two of the existing MTRRs, X cannot add a write-combining
>>  > range for the video memory. That makes X rather slow especially if you
>>  > use DRI for Compiz etc.
>>
>>  Well you are lucky then :)
>>
>>  Yeah X 'worked' but it worked as slow as with vesa video driver here.
>>
>>  Also starting something like supertuxkart made it crash or I got a black screen :(
>>
>>  The only game I managed to start ( without X to crash ) without that patch was supertux but is was slow as hell.
>>  However I'm not a gamer but I need X to work right.
>>
> or can you change graphics card memory in BIOS to some big like 256M
> instead of 64M?
> 

It is set to 256M , I cannot even set it to 64MB in BIOS.
I have options for 128/256 MB only and I think I can change the mode to fixed.

quoted text> YH
> 

Gabriel
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[PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Jan 21, 2:56 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 22, 12:51 pm)

[PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Tue Jan 22, 8:23 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Andrew Morton, (Sat Apr 26, 6:56 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 2:50 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Mika Fischer, (Mon Apr 28, 4:38 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 5:09 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Mika Fischer, (Mon Apr 28, 5:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 5:58 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Sat Apr 26, 9:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Mika Fischer, (Sun Apr 27, 4:29 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Sat Apr 26, 8:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Mika Fischer, (Sun Apr 27, 4:21 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Sat Apr 26, 8:56 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 2:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 5:18 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 5:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 5:54 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 28, 9:53 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Jesse Barnes, (Mon Apr 28, 12:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 29, 6:37 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Jesse Barnes, (Tue Apr 29, 11:52 am)

[patch] PCI: export resource_wc in pci sysfs, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 29, 6:03 pm)

Re: [patch] PCI: export resource_wc in pci sysfs, Andrew Morton, (Tue Apr 29, 6:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Andrew Morton, (Tue Apr 29, 8:40 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Mika Fischer, (Mon Apr 28, 12:31 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Jesse Barnes, (Mon Apr 28, 12:55 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 10:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Mika Fischer, (Mon Apr 28, 10:11 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 10:24 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 3:08 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 3:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 3:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 3:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 4:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 5:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 6:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 6:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 7:23 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 9:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 10:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 29, 6:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Tue Apr 29, 6:42 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Gabriel C, (Mon Apr 28, 6:03 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Mika Fischer, (Mon Apr 28, 6:07 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 3:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Sat Apr 26, 9:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Apr 28, 2:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 29, 6:31 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Apr 29, 1:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Tue Apr 29, 2:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Apr 29, 3:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Tue Apr 29, 3:44 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Apr 29, 4:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 28, 7:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Jesse Barnes, (Mon Jan 21, 12:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Justin Piszcz, (Mon Jan 21, 3:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Jan 21, 4:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Justin Piszcz, (Mon Jan 21, 5:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Yinghai Lu, (Tue Jan 22, 11:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Justin Piszcz, (Fri Jan 25, 8:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Jan 28, 11:09 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Justin Piszcz, (Mon Jan 28, 2:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Jan 25, 8:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2, Justin Piszcz, (Fri Jan 25, 8:37 pm)

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