Averatec 6240 pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power

[David Hinds]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> hi james
> 
> [ please always use reply-to-all. i'm not subscribed to the list ]
> 
> you have a notebook with graphic controller working in shared memory mode
> which means it uses the main memory. unfortunatley the is BIOS crap and
> forgets to report that. add the following to the kernel command line to
> fix the problem:
> 	reserve=0x1e000000,0x2000000
> it tells the kernel not to use the region from 480-512 MB.

I thought that this had been fixed, so the kernel would round up
apparent memory sizes that were a bit smaller than a power of two.  
I guess not.  It really should get fixed properly (even though it
technically is not a kernel problem), because it generates a huge
amount of problem reports.

-- Dave