Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:45:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mike Dresser <> | Subject | Re: mem=16MB laptop testing |
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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
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