Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

Mike Dresser
2003-10-15T17:45:49Z

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Thomas Schlichter wrote:

> I had one report of a person using mem= to reduce memory size for
> a broken i386 chipset thaty only supports 64MB cached and the rest
> as mtd/slram device for swap. I got broken as the boundaries changed.

The 430FX, HX, VX, and TX ones?

There's also some VIA/Ali/etc chipsets of that same era that have cache
ram limits as well.

Found a good page listing all the limits while looking up info
yesterday, from when PC Chips was pirating BIOS code, for a discussion
going on over at one of the storagereview.com forums

Mike