Comment 64 for bug 272530

The machine in question is made by Cleo (a Taiwanese ODM - at least
mine is), and there is supposedly a BIOS upgrade that fixes the memory
problem. But I haven't picked up the courage to install try it
because it requires a non-Linux OS to install it, and one would have
to do some experimentation to see how to update it with Linux.

I am not sure a kernel patch would work, because the BIOS has to turn
on the memory to make it read-writable (or so I understand).

-- Bhaskar

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:45 AM, BongoMan <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's a pity, I had to ask a second time to get an answer from samsung,
> and that is what they said:
>
> Von unserer Seite aus werden nur 32-Bit Betriebssysteme ausgeliefert und nur
> Treiber für 32-Bit Versionen
> angeboten. Daher werden auch nur diese unterstützt. Uns ist kein Fehler in der
> Speicheradressierung der
> E152-Serie bekannt, weshalb auch nicht davon auszugehen ist, dass ein Bios
> Update für dieses erscheinen
> wird.
>
> for those who don't understand german, they say they're only supporting
> 32 bit systems and that they don't believe that there is a bug in memory
> management for the E152 series.  I don't believe that, because I read at
> some other place that even Vista 64-bit doesn't want to install on this
> laptop. I liked samsung before, but that will be the last samsung thing
> I bought....
>
> If samsung doesn't want to correct the bug, is there maybe a possibility
> for a kernel-patch as a sort of workaround?
>
> --
> 64-bit Intrepid automatic permanent reboot loop related to having exactly 4GB of memory
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272530
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