From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>
Cc: Paolo Ornati <javaman@katamail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Documentation for PC Architecture
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:30:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819163034.GA15033@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308182202550.27238-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
> What is this 2nd address translation you are mentioning.
> I always thought that for the sake of cleanliness we just forget about the
> 384K of memory starting from 640K. RAM anyway is cheap.
> Pl correct me if I'm missing something.
That is probably true of modern machines. It is hard to tell from the
e820 map on two machines I just looked at, because other bits of RAM
are missing, more than 384k.
The original question asked about "the PC architecture", and I can say
for sure that a PC with 1MB does not just forget about 384k of it :)
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-18 9:27 Paolo Ornati
2003-08-18 18:55 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-18 21:11 ` Paolo Ornati
2003-08-18 22:54 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-19 1:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 16:34 ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-08-19 16:30 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-08-19 8:01 ` Paolo Ornati
2003-08-19 15:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-19 0:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 10:14 John Bradford
2003-08-18 11:24 ` Paolo Ornati
2003-08-19 7:37 John Bradford
2003-08-19 11:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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