Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765118AbXFAU5d (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:57:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763658AbXFAU5S (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:57:18 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:52077 "EHLO pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763470AbXFAU5Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:57:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:56:54 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG) In-reply-to: To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Parag Warudkar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <46608816.9040607@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <82e4877d0705301757v580a4ca5yebe2a565f0b97552@mail.gmail.com> <465E513E.60903@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1216 Lines: 32 Justin Piszcz wrote: >> I think that mem=8832M would work as well, to make the kernel use only >> the memory that is marked cacheable. (It looks like this parameter >> takes the highest memory address we want the kernel to use, not the >> highest memory amount.) >> >> -- >> Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada >> To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca >> Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ >> > > Is 8832MB a typo? 8GB of memory is ~8192MB right? Did you mean 8132MB > or? Intel wants me to flash my bios and reset everything to the > defaults to see if it is still an issue, I'd prefer to try the mem= > option first. I think 8832 should be right.. As far as I can tell, the number is the highest memory address, not the amount of memory, and there are some holes in the 3-4GB region. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/