Re: ACPI problems with this morning's -CURRENT [SOLVED]

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:52:10 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:
> Thus spake Nate Lawson (nate_at_root.org) [16/09/03 16:24]:
> > I have no time to track this down but the output of acpidump -t may help
> > someone else who might be interested.  You're looking for the pointers
> > that are stored in RSD PTR.
>
> I'm still on 5.1-R, and there's no '-t' flag to acpidump.  However, I've
> posted the dump on the web:
>
>     <http://www.sentex.net/~damian/acpidump>
>
> so people can browse as they wish.

As expected, your ACPI tables are at the top of physmem:  RSDT=0x1fff3000.
This is only 52k from 512MB.  Something in how MAXMEM affects setup of
physical memory is truncating physmem by at least 64k.

In short, Don't Do That.

-Nate
Received on Tue Sep 16 2003 - 11:52:09 UTC

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