From: "Alejandro Bonilla" <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:57:53 -0400
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:51:18 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote
> Hi Roland,
> 
> >     Marcel> The BIOS and dmidecode tells me that I have 4 GB of RAM
> >     Marcel> installed and I don't have any idea where to look for
> >     Marcel> details. What information do you need to analyze this?

.....

> 
> The kernel is compiled for x86_64 and the term EM64T is correct. The
> important question is now how do I remap that memory. Loosing almost 
> a full GB of memory wasn't my plan when upgrading to 4 GB.

This is pretty much how it works. Else, purchase an Itanium system. ;-)

EM64T != IA64

.Alejandro

> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel

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