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From: "Jasper Spaans" <jasper@vs19.net>
To: "Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.
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On 4/16/07, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Jeff Chua wrote:
> > > I've noticed that with 4GB physical ram, I'm only see 3098000 MB on
> > > the Dell 745, and 3107056MB on the IBM X60s.
> > >
> > > I've tested with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y,
> > > CONFIG_X86_PAE=y, but nothing makes any difference.
> >
> > Chipset limitation. It uses up most of the MMIO region above 3GB
> > preventing RAM from being mapped there, and doesn't support remapping
> > the covered RAM to above 4GB. Nothing the kernel can do about it.
>
> Well, I guess I learned the hard way. So it's better not to buy 4GB
> ... it turns out to be the same as buying one with just 3GB RAM.

Might be a setting in the bios... look for something like memory hole,
memory remapping, 4G DRAM, etc.

VrGr,
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