Memory bank detection available?

Memory bank detection available?

[Nico Schottelius]

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Hello!

Is it possible to detect, which memory banks on the mainboard are in use under
Linux/x86?

Thanks for any hints,

Nico

P.S.: Plaese cc, I am not subscribed.

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Re: Memory bank detection available?

[Bart Hartgers]

Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to detect, which memory banks on the mainboard are in use under
> Linux/x86?
> 

dmidecode might do the trick, depending on your BIOS.

Groeten,
Bart

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Re: Memory bank detection available?

[Nico Schottelius]

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Bart Hartgers [Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:50:12PM +0200]:
> Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Is it possible to detect, which memory banks on the mainboard are in use under
> > Linux/x86?
> > 
> 
> dmidecode might do the trick, depending on your BIOS.

Thanks a lot, dmidecode -t memory did the trick!

Nico

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Re: Memory bank detection available?

[Andrew Brukhov]

> Is it possible to detect, which memory banks on the mainboard are in use under
> Linux/x86?
In teory it is really if your bios have SMBIOS.

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Re: Memory bank detection available?

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:40:39PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> Is it possible to detect, which memory banks on the mainboard are in
> use under Linux/x86?

Usually 0x50..0x53 are the SPDs on the first four memory slots.
Sometimes it's 0x50..0x57 when you have 8-slots but not always.

You can also try dmidecode but dmi infomation tends to be pretty
debious as a whole.