RE: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

[Dunlap, Randy]

> From: Rogerio Brito [mailto:[e-mail]]
> 
> 	While I don't have problems with the Duron above, I do have a
> 	486 here with 8MB of memory that I intend to use as a router
> 	for my local LAN, but 2.4.0 only recognizes 7MB, while 2.2.18
> 	recognizes all 8MB. Under 2.4.0 (I haven't tried 2.4.1 yet), I
> 	used a mem=8M option and it worked fine, but I don't know if
> 	this is indeed safe or not (I'd guess that it would be, since
> 	the 2.2 kernels use all memory, but you never know).

Fixed in 2.4.1 and its pre-patches.

~Randy