Re: AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-core and 4GB

[thockin@hockin.org]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:13:46AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > If you want to use 4GB in 32 bit mode, you *need* remapping (or you lose
> > part of your memory).  Remapping means you have MORE than 4 GB of physical
> > address, which means you need PAE to use it at all.
> 
> Yes, and PAE works fine with a 32bit kernel.  I agree it is a silly
> configuration and a 64bit kernel would use the memory more
> efficiently.  My basic point was that a dual-core is a recent enough
> processor from AMD that it supports memory remapping.  So with a
> correct BIOS there should be no problems. 

Earlier Opterons had remapping, too, just at the chip-select level.  Even
with remapping, the memory that gets remapped gets mapped above 4 GB, so a
32 bit kernel still needs PAE to address it.