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| From: | Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-amd64@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct? | ||
| Date: | Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:13:05 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200710181500.24885.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct? by Evert |
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| 1 | On Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007, Evert wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I read their text again and noticed: 'OS will allocate 3~4GB memory address |
| 4 | > for onboard device'. |
| 5 | > Wouldn't that mean it's simply a (kernel)configuration issue...? |
| 6 | |
| 7 | no, it is a 'stupid bios' issue. The bios could put the pci/other device |
| 8 | memory space somewhere in the high terrabyte area, but instead it chooses to |
| 9 | put it at the end of the 4gb range, because of historical reasons. |
| 10 | -- |
| 11 | gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
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| [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct? | Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |