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From: "Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
To: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@ec.gc.ca>
Subject: Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:47:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6a2187b0704160747l2707cac8ifc480bdbf147c37b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46238572.5050203@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

On 4/16/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> The X60 most certainly contains a chipset which severely limits the
> amount of accessible RAM due to issues with remapping of PCIe addresses.
>  Intel explains it somewhere on their web presence.  A quick & lazy web
> search turned this Intel paper up:
> http://www.polywell.com/us/support/faq/4GB_Rev1.pdf

Stefan,

That's interesting.Thanks for the pointer. I wondered if there's
anyone working on a patch for this.

I've seen this problem before, just like Vincent, I thought it's only
me. Didn't really bother me, until I got a new X60s with 4GB RAM.

Thanks,
Jeff.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-16 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-16  7:28 Jeff Chua
2007-04-16 13:12 ` Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
2007-04-16 14:17 ` Stefan Richter
2007-04-16 14:47   ` Jeff Chua [this message]
2007-04-16 18:25     ` Stefan Richter
     [not found] <fa.wZS4ieAkOMvNOj61QiUn9aS+YeM@ifi.uio.no>
2007-04-16 14:33 ` Robert Hancock
2007-04-16 14:52   ` Jeff Chua
2007-04-16 19:56     ` Stefan Richter
2007-04-17 18:26     ` Jasper Spaans
2007-04-18  0:28       ` Jeff Chua

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