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    SubjectRe: mem=16MB laptop testing
    On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Thomas Schlichter wrote:

    > I had one report of a person using mem= to reduce memory size for
    > a broken i386 chipset thaty only supports 64MB cached and the rest
    > as mtd/slram device for swap. I got broken as the boundaries changed.

    The 430FX, HX, VX, and TX ones?

    There's also some VIA/Ali/etc chipsets of that same era that have cache
    ram limits as well.

    Found a good page listing all the limits while looking up info
    yesterday, from when PC Chips was pirating BIOS code, for a discussion
    going on over at one of the storagereview.com forums

    Mike
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