Bug 84903

Summary: FR PRI=2.0 AS2.1 Errata 2: Big Memory Support
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Larry Troan <ltroan>
Component: kernelAssignee: Larry Woodman <lwoodman>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 2.1CC: ichute, tao
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Description Larry Troan 2003-02-23 15:25:41 UTC 
PROBLEM: 96GB needed for 2.1 errata
FIX PROVIDE BY HP; already in 2.6 kernel
BUSINESS CASE:  Everest and Olympis/Eiger Requirement
DATE DUE: AS 2.1 Errata 2
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Action by: charline.polifka
Issue Registered
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Action by: charline.polifka


Status set to: Waiting on Tech

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Action by: ltroan
Where is fix (no file attached)?


Category set to: Kernel
Status set to: Waiting on Client

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Action by: ltroan
Charline to find out what HP has tested. Then close...

charline.polifka assigned to issue for HP-IPF.

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Action by: charline.polifka
HP has already tested to 48GB on an Everest.  HP will provide tests for 96GB.

Status set to: Waiting on Tech

ISSUE TRACKER 13718
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-02-23 15:29:34 UTC 
what is this about?
Comment 2 Larry Troan 2003-03-04 16:08:16 UTC 
Arjan, this is large memory support on IA-64 architecture. 
HP has tested 48GB on their Everest box and will provide tests for 96GB. Believe
this is a 
1) Red Hat QA bandwidth issue 
2) requirement for HP to provide hardware with 96GB memory for our QA to test.
Comment 3 Larry Troan 2003-03-18 15:38:52 UTC 
FROM ISSUE TRACKER
Event posted 03-11-2003 01:18pm by sdenham with duration of 0.00
Charline is sending us an 8-way Olympia (8, Madison B0 chips) on March 24 in
order to enable HP's high-end systems (Pinnacles) support in AS 3.0 (IT 11385).
  This system will be able to use the 12, 1 GB DIMMS that HP is also sending us
with a fully loaded Long's Peak workstation.  

Severity set to: Urgent
Comment 4 Larry Troan 2003-03-18 17:46:24 UTC 
FROM ISSUE TRACKER...
From Phil Rob: Everest can be upgraded with 2GB DIMMs to support 96GB and may be
a better approach to testing the high mem requirement. Sue, can you comment?

sdenham assigned to issue for HP-IPF.
Comment 5 Larry Woodman 2005-09-28 16:19:52 UTC 
We cant make the nevel of change to support this in AS2.1 at this late date.  

Larry Woodman