Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750918AbWHIOtG (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:49:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750905AbWHIOtG (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:49:06 -0400 Received: from mserv3.uoregon.edu ([128.223.142.101]:60612 "EHLO smtp.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750918AbWHIOtF (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:49:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:48:15 -0700 From: Joel Jaeggli To: "gmu 2k6" Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Thomas Stewart" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Only 3.2G ram out of 4G seen in an i386 box Message-Id: <20060809074815.bec7f32c.joelja@uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: References: <20060808101504.GJ2152@stingr.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1158 Lines: 24 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:51:41 +0200 "gmu 2k6" wrote: > > Are these technical notes supposed to be so funny? > > > > DS > > I guess this is all related to older Intel chipsets, right? I mean the > chipset *75X something I'm going to have in the new box I will get > soonish will support up to 8 GiB. I hope it does not mean that it will > be capped at 7.4GiB although I will only have 4GiB installed for now. most modern 64 bit x86 systems will relocate this memory hole to somewhere else within the address space (memory hoisting)... You'll probably find the it reappers the first time you buy a system with 1TB of ram... > - > 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/ - 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/