Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:17:41 -0500 | From | moth@magenta ... | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram. |
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:00:11AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > You should probably ignore this thread. It's probably not relevant to > you.
Ok, thanks. My mistake.
> > [In my fantasies, I was thinking that the system came up with only 1GB of > > the memory easily usable, and that the lack of support for my hardware > > meant that it couldn't be properly reconfigured. But I recognize that > > I haven't spent the time researching this to see if in fact this is > > the case.] > > Highmem support gets you this on ia32. Other architectures can support it > with less overhead.
Are there docs on this?
> > I am in the process of bringing up an cross compilation environment for > > amd64 -- I need to do that anyways -- and I'll try building a real 64 > > bit kernel to see if that helps any. If that doesn't, I guess I'll try > > a couple 4G highmem kernels (one 64 bit, one 32 bit). If nothing else, > > that will eat up some time... > > If you have such a cpu why are you bothering with highmem (or wondering > if > 2GB is supported)?
I'm not wondering if > 2GB is supported. I'm trying to get 2GB to work (and I'm having a problem -- perhaps because I believe Documentation/memory.txt doesn't cover the issues I'm facing).
I've not yet bothered with highmem, but I will if building a 64 bit kernel doesn't get me access to 2GB.
Does that answer your question?
Thanks,
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