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From: felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: memory remapping, 4gb memory on 945gt
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:49:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080104154914.GA589@codeblau.de> (raw)

I recently put 4 GB of memory in my Acer Travelmate 8210 series
notebook.  The BIOS only detects 3 GB.

I googled around a little.  It appears to be a chipset limitation of the
945gt, which uses the fourth gig for devices.

Now I can understand this explanation for 32-bit mode, but I'm running
in 64-bit mode.  There should be a way to use the fourth gig under
Linux.  Is there?

Has anyone else solved this problem?  What happens if you just use the
mem= option to tell the kernel you have 4 GB?  I'd just try it but I
don't want to corrupt my buffer cache and get crap writte over my data
on disk.

Any advice?

Felix

             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-04 15:49 felix-linuxkernel [this message]
2008-01-04 16:22 ` memory remapping, 4gb memory on 945gt Andi Kleen
2008-01-04 18:19   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2008-01-04 22:03     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-04 23:02       ` Parag Warudkar
2008-01-04 19:35   ` Udo A. Steinberg

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