Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030210AbVJ1PcP (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:32:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030214AbVJ1PcP (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:32:15 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:27553 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030210AbVJ1PcO (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:32:14 -0400 To: Vladimir Lazarenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-core and 4GB References: <4361408B.60903@lazarenko.net> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:30:51 -0600 In-Reply-To: <4361408B.60903@lazarenko.net> (Vladimir Lazarenko's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:03:07 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Length: 715 Lines: 19 Vladimir Lazarenko writes: > Hello, > > Looking at the thread of Interl Dual-core and 4GB a sudden thought came to my > mind: "Hey, I'm gonna upgrade my box to 4G next week too... Would it work?" > > Thus, the question - would I be able to use whole 4G RAM with dual-core amd and > kernel with SMP compiled for i686? A Dual-core is a rev-E processor so the cpu has memory hoisting support, so it will work if your BIOS implement it properly. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/