Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:58:40 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: 4Gb ram not showing up |
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On Jun 7 2007 02:48, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 6/6/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >> [...] >> A better description would be: >> >> "Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and memory mapped in the 1GB >> to 4GB address range." >> [...] >> That one would be better as: >> >> "Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and ram mapped in the address >> range above 4GB." > > Ugh, no! How can we expect the user compiling a kernel to be *so* > familiar with address space re-mapping / BIOSen (_his_ particular > BIOS, specifically, and what / how it re-maps memory) / etc to be > able to answer such questions? "Select ... if you have ... RAM > installed" is perfectly clear, simple, and all that's needed.
Then explain it.
"Select this if you have a 32 bit cpu and ram mapped above 4 G. To see where RAM is mapped, interpret the E820 lines from dmesg, for more information see Documentation/e820.txt"
or something like that.
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