Messages in this thread | | | From | "William M. Perkins" <> | Subject | Re: 16 MB -> 32 MB, a memory problem resolved! | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:23:12 -0400 (EDT) |
| |
> On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > > 32M-384k is _NORMAL_ and the point I was trying to make. > > The 384k is reserved by the motherboard, and is damned near > > impossible to access (it varies from board to board). > > It is used for stuff like caching the BIOS and VGA ROMs > > so that it doesn't go completely to waste. If you disable > > caching you _still_ don't get the memory back either. > > > > -- Andrew E. Mileski -- > It's waisted in Linux, as it doesn't use the bios (well some parts, but > very little, eg apm ....) > If you can turn BIOS shadowing, and video shadowing off in the BIOS > setup .... > > Bryn
Well, I have all of the bios shadowing turned off and that top 384 KB is still not available. I guess it never will be under Linux.
Bill
-- William M. Perkins Internet - wperkins@us.net The Greenwood or - bill@cais.com Commodore is dead. Long lives the Amiga! (AmigaOS/Linux/NetBSD)
| |