From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:02:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130763759.9145.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4365920D.2080009@linuxwireless.org>
On Sul, 2005-10-30 at 20:39 -0700, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> I guess you are right and wrong. The architecture has the limitation,
> the chipset as well and the OS. According to this document, it is the
> fault of the architecture as well as it requires to support addressing
> which is not available *stock*, only several other providers have added
> such "mapping" to get a better use of the memory.
That document reads like a "don't blame us because we didn't bother to
do remapping". That is an Intel business decision not a hardware limit,
as is shown by other vendors whose hardware can do the remap.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-27 20:33 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 20:44 ` Roland Dreier
2005-10-27 20:51 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 20:54 ` Roland Dreier
2005-10-27 21:00 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 21:06 ` Roland Dreier
2005-10-27 21:08 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 21:10 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-27 20:57 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-27 20:54 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-27 20:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 21:02 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-27 21:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 21:15 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-27 21:19 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 22:26 ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-10-27 22:05 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-27 22:09 ` Vladimir Lazarenko
2005-11-02 16:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-10-27 22:11 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 22:12 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-27 22:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-27 22:20 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-28 0:33 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-10-30 22:26 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-31 3:39 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-10-31 13:02 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-10-31 23:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-11-01 5:03 ` thockin
2005-10-27 22:29 ` Joel Jaeggli
2005-10-27 22:13 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-27 22:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-28 2:35 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-10-28 3:09 ` Joel Jaeggli
2005-10-28 7:19 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-10-28 15:56 ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-10-28 15:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-10-28 15:45 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-28 16:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-10-30 22:24 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-02 16:20 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-10-27 22:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-27 21:09 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-27 21:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-28 20:58 Lukas Hejtmanek
2005-10-29 3:32 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-29 11:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-10-30 6:49 ` Dave Jones
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