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From: Wojciech Kromer <wojciech.kromer@dgt.com.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:50:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EA4B50.7040904@dgt.com.pl> (raw)

I can't see whole 8GB of ram.

With F2 BIOS release i can only work with kernel param mem=4G.
After updating to F4 BIOS release I can work with mem=8G, but I see this:

# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          6473        474       5999          0         29        278

Without mem=8G kernel starts to slow down and hangs while starting 
filesystem.
There is no message.

My whole memory was tested with memtest. Full test took about 48hour. Is 
it wrong?

I have:  Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz
There are 4   *  2GB / 667MHz DIMMs.


# cat /proc/iomem |grep RAM
00000000-0009f7ff : System RAM
00100000-9fedffff : System RAM
100000000-25fffffff : System RAM

# dmesg|grep BIOS-e820
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000009fee0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000009fee0000 - 000000009fee3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000009fee3000 - 000000009fef0000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000009fef0000 - 000000009ff00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000c0000000 - 00000000c4000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000260000000 (usable)



I can see that higer memory range was remmaped,
by why accesing something greater than 100000000 is problematic?
Do I need to change something i kernel configuration?







 


             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-14  8:50 Wojciech Kromer [this message]
2007-09-14 13:18 ` Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-18  7:01   ` Wojciech Kromer
2007-09-18 14:20     ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-18 14:35       ` Wojciech Kromer
2007-09-18 14:50         ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-19  9:28           ` Wojciech Kromer
2007-09-20  7:43             ` Wojciech Kromer
2007-09-21 15:38               ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-21 15:38             ` Lennart Sorensen

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