Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:06:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:06:02 -0500 Received: from beaker.bluetopia.net ([63.219.235.110]:34640 "EHLO beaker.bluetopia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:05:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:05:36 -0500 (EST) From: Ricky Beam To: "Dunlap, Randy" cc: Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel Subject: RE: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: ... Interesting... I just checked my machine (2.4.1-SMP) to see it only saw 64MB when it has 256MB. >From 2.4.0-test5: Linux version 2.4.0-test5-SMP (root@chickenboo) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #12 SMP Thu Aug 10 12:56:38 EDT 2000 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000000e0000 (reserved) e820: 000000000fee0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) e820: 0000000000018000 @ 000000000ffe0000 (ACPI data) e820: 0000000000008000 @ 000000000fff8000 (ACPI NVS) e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fec00000 (reserved) e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fee00000 (reserved) e820: 0000000000040000 @ 00000000fffc0000 (reserved) Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes. found SMP MP-table at 000fb560 hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice. hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 65504 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 61408 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. >From 2.4.1: Linux version 2.4.1-SMP (root@chickenboo) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 30 17:13:07 EST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000000e0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000003f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fec00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fee00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000040000 @ 00000000fffc0000 (reserved) Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes. found SMP MP-table at 000fb560 hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice. hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 12288 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Nothing at all has changed in either the BIOS setup, compiler, etc. All I did was reboot (and not pay it any attention.) The configuration was the same (make oldconfig.) --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/