Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Nov 1996 20:15:49 -0800 (PST) | From | Josh Richards <> | Subject | Re: 64Mb RAM maximum with linux? |
| |
Try this simple patch.
Of course a better thing to do would be to get Linux to recognize >64 megs..
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > > [Resume: Linux seen 64Mb in place of 96Mb installed] > > > > Bios, DOS and Windows view my 96Mb, but, under Linux 2.1.10 & 2.0.25 > > It would be good to fix this, but for 2.0 at least I think Linux should > print "Check the documentation if you have over 64 MB of RAM" if over > 63 MB are detected. I hope that is not too much of a feature for 2.0. >
*** arch/i386/mm/init.c.orig Sat Nov 23 19:47:32 1996 --- arch/i386/mm/init.c Sat Nov 23 20:02:28 1996 *************** *** 269,274 **** --- 269,285 ---- codepages << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), reservedpages << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), datapages << (PAGE_SHIFT-10)); + + /* [23 Nov 1996] + * Added by Josh Richards (jrichard@fix.net) + */ + /* check for greater then 63 megs and give warning */ + if (max_mapnr >= 64512) { + printk("Warning: You may have more memory then was + detected by the kernel. Check the documentation + and add the neccessary boot parameter to + specify the total available RAM. \n"); + } + /* test if the WP bit is honoured in supervisor mode */ if (wp_works_ok < 0) { unsigned char tmp_reg;
| Josh Richards -- Network Admin/Tech Support @ The FIX Network | | <jrichard@FIX.Net> <jrichard@Freedom.gen.ca.us> <jrichard@Slonet.org> | | <http://www.freedom.gen.ca.us/jrichard/> Finger for my PGP Key | | - 'Life is hard, sendmail.cf reflects this...' - |
| |