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From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
To: <chrish@techspecs.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: AMD Zacate E350 shows only 2.6GB memory when 8GB installed
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:37:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110617123736.GA18054@aftab> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110617090303.GB939@liondog.tnic>

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:03:03AM -0400, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:52:19AM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > chrish@techspecs.com wrote:
> > >    I tried this on Fedora 14 and OpenSuse 11.4 and both exhibit the same
> > > behavior. 8GB is installed but only 2698476 shows available for use
> > > using "top" or "free".
> > 
> > /proc/iomem?
> > dmesg?
> 
> Also, do you have the latest BIOS? If not, can you update it? Also, can
> you try the latest upstream kernel to verify the problem still exists?

Something else you could try is update your Fedora 14 kernel since the
latest version supposedly contains a fix which is relevant to your
issue:

commit 3fdbf004c1706480a7c7fac3c9d836fa6df20d7d
Author: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 30 14:32:35 2010 +0200

    x86, mtrr: Assume SYS_CFG[Tom2ForceMemTypeWB] exists on all future AMD CPUs

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Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-17  0:59 PROBLEM: AMD Zacate E350 shows only 2.6GB memory when 8GB installed chrish
2011-06-17  6:52 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-06-17  9:03   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-06-17 12:37     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2011-06-17  9:21 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-06-17 17:30 ` chrish

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