Subject: Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Iau, 2005-10-27 at 17:15 -0400, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> > so there is no way to give me back the "lost" memory. Is it possible
> > that another motherboard might help?
> 
> AFAIK, No. AMD and Intel will always do the same thing until we all move to
> real IA64.

Fortunately you can use a real processor with 4GB of RAM as well as an
IA-64 (if you can find one even!). It is chipset dependant whether RAM
lost to the PCI window can be made to appear over the 4GB boundary with
a PAE capable intel ia32 processor (or clone) with an AMD x86-64
processor (or clone)

It depends entirely on the chipset quality

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