Re: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 05:57:02 EST


On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:25:22 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:

>2.4.1 detects 64 MB, but 2.4.0 detects 192 (Maybe 191, not sure).
>...
>Linux version 2.4.1 (root@tabriel) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Tue Jan 30 15:35:21 EST 2001
>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-88: 000000000009f000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
> BIOS-88: 0000000003ff0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
>On node 0 totalpages: 16624
>...
>CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02
>...
>BIOS Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
>BIOS Version: 6.0 PG
>BIOS Release: 11/23/99
>Board Vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
>Board Name: MS-6167 (AMD751).
>Board Version: 1.X.

Why on earth is this fairly recent motherboard using BIOS-88
to report available memory? I would have expected E820 here.
Can you send the dmesg output from 2.4.0 and/or 2.2.19pre7?

/Mikael
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