From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932083AbWG2SM2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:12:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932203AbWG2SM2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:12:28 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:33955 "EHLO pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932083AbWG2SM1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:12:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:12:22 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: BIOS detects 4 GB RAM, but kernel does not In-reply-to: <1154145714.279248.233230@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> To: linux-kernel Cc: iforone Message-id: <44CBA506.4040906@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <1154112339.037481.119210@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1154145714.279248.233230@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org iforone wrote: > If we take a quick look at (part of) the OP's 'dmesg' output; > ACPI: RSDT (v001 INTEL D915GAV 0x20050429 MSFT 0x00000097) @ > 0x00000000c7730000 > ACPI: FADT (v002 INTEL D915GAV 0x20050429 MSFT 0x00000097) @ > 0x00000000c7730200 > ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL D915GAV 0x20050429 MSFT 0x00000097) @ > 0x00000000c7730390 > ACPI: MCFG (v001 INTEL D915GAV 0x20050429 MSFT 0x00000097) @ > 0x00000000c7730400 > ACPI: ASF! (v016 LEGEND I865PASF 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ > 0x00000000c7736020 > ACPI: TCPA (v001 INTEL TBLOEMID 0x00000001 MSFT 0x00000097) @ > 0x00000000c77360c0 > ACPI: WDDT (v001 INTEL OEMWDDT 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ > 0x00000000c77360f4 > ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL D915GAV 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ > 0x0000000000000000 > No NUMA configuration found > Faking a node at 0000000000000000-00000000c772f000 > Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-00000000c772f000 > No mptable found. > On node 0 totalpages: 816943 > > =============== > > We see MSFT (Microsoft) all over the place as well as INTL (Intel ?) -- > I suppose this machine may be a Dellio (perhaps HP or Compaq)? or > atleast one that has one of those stickers on the case that says > "Designed for use with MS Windows [version]" I believe that indicates that the Microsoft ACPI compiler was used to generate the ACPI tables in the BIOS.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/