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SubjectRe: 16 MB -> 32 MB, a memory problem resolved!
> > 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


Life isn't so crude :-) You may look at my very old patches (for 1.0.9) and
adapt them for 1.3.x. It should be easy, but currently I have no time for
this.

Patches included at the end of this posting.

Jacek Zapala (jacek@deuter.im.pw.edu.pl)


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