Teleconference information for software status meeting tonight.

[Richard Smith]

> a-f segments cause errors in memtest, and fixed region configs are
> possibly not set right.
>   http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/98

Ron and I discussed this.  I have the fix for this in my private
linuxbios tree.  I've marked the entire area as RAM.  I'll probably
test it tomorrow evening or Thurs at Boston.

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> e820 map incorrectly excludes most of range 0xa0000-100000
>   http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/97

Ron and I looked at this.  Its not that its specifically excluded but
its not specfically included either.  The default action of Memtest 86
would have been to exclude these ranges but when it sees that its
running under linuxbios it willl go ahead and test it _unless_ its
excluded.

If ticket 98 works as expected then 97 will just "Work".

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Ticket  #143.

See my comments on the tracker.  I know exactly what the problem is
and its an easy fix.  Will fix when I'm at Boston at the end of this
week.
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RE:  FC6 linuxbios build issues.

Segher Boessenkool is here at LinuxBIOS 2006.  He is a GCC maintainer.
 In fact as he sits next to me right now he is reviewing proposed gcc
patches.  I've been discussing our FC6 toolchain problems.

He has agreeed to look at our FC6 problem.  What he tells me he needs
are tarball(s) of the build with object files for FC5 and FC6.

I have access to a FC5 machine but not FC6.

-- 
Richard A. Smith