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From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler@upb.de>
Subject: IOMMU/AGP troubles on AMD64
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:31:45 +0100
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Hi,

i've bought a new Motherboard: Asrock K8S8X (SiS 755 based)

It's running pretty fine, but i can only use 448MB of my 512MB memory.
So here's why:

   Checking aperture...
   CPU 0: aperture @ e0000000 size 32 MB
   Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB)
   AGP bridge at 00:00:00
   Aperture from AGP @ e0000000 size 32 MB (APSIZE 38)
   Aperture from AGP bridge too small (32 MB)
   Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
   Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
   This costs you 64 MB of RAM
   Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 4000000

This is what the kernel tells me when booting.
I already mailed to Asrock that this might be an issue with their BIOS, 
but the answer was very "untechnical":

   We did not test Linux.
   If you need Linux driver, please check from SiS Web Site.
   www.sis.com.tw

The problem is, that i don't know enought to decide, if this is an issue 
than can be fixed in the Linux-Kernel or if this problem should/must be 
fixed in the BIOS. There is no IOMMU-Option in the BIOS.

Thx
   Sven

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