> On Wednesday someone brought in a windozed Toshiba Satellite 2140CDS. Somehow
> the boot blocks got 160Mb for it and I had to
> 
> options         REALBASEMEM=639         # size of base memory (in KB)
> options         REALEXTMEM=64512        # size of extended memory (in KB)
> 
> for it. The strange thing is that on the web someone posted a dmesg for
> that very model => I would assume that normally things are reported
> correctly. What should I assume? Broken BIOS? Something changed in the
> bootblocks since the dmesg was posted?

There have been some recent changes to the bootblock memory sizing code.
(not deliberately by myself)

Possibly they are confused by your bios....

It isn't too difficult to add a few diagnostics to the bootcode
to work out where the numbers come from.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk