From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:25:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.202.55]:24461 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:25:47 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pcp05077810pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[68.54.246.193]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004121912253001100atp6me>; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:25:30 +0000 Message-ID: <41C57431.8000900@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:29:37 -0500 From: Kumba User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org CC: Frederic TEMPORELLI Subject: Re: SGI O2 - RAM 320MBytes - linux reports 245MBytes (/proc/meminfo) References: <20041219023850Z8225215-1340+5@linux-mips.org> <41C556C3.401@laposte.net> In-Reply-To: <41C556C3.401@laposte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 6709 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Frederic TEMPORELLI wrote: > Hello, > > no way to see (use ?) all available RAM (320MB) on SGI O2 with > 2.6.10-rc3 (latest cvs) > > Hardware => SGI O2 with 320MBytes in this way: > dimm 1: 32MBytes - dimm2: 32MBytes > dimm 3: 32MBytes - dimm4: 32MBytes > dimm 5: 32MBytes - dimm6: 32MBytes > dimm 7: 64MBytes - dimm8: 64MBytes > > Firmware => "hinv" is reporting 320MBytes (OK, match hardware) > > Linux Kernel (32 and 64 bits) => /proc/meminfo is reporting a MemTotal > of 245436KB > "top" command is reporting same wrong value (more than 64MB missing) > > where can I look for in sources to report/use all available RAM ? > can you help me ? O2, like Indy and I2/R4x00, are limited to 256MB max RAM currently. To see any further, O2 needs HIGHMEM support, which last I checked, doesn't exist. Patches welcome :) --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond