Re: Breaking the 64MB barrier
Ricardo Galli (gallir@atlas-iap.es)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 04:05:36 +0200
The question is this: I had a debate with someone about the 64MB+
memory issue with Linux. Their position is that it's a bug in the
kernel,
and mine was that it was an x86 BIOS limitation. I have two
questions:
1.) who's right? 2.) How is it that Microsoft is able to deal with
this
without a bootloader option, and we can't? Seems this is a sizeable
flaw
(regardless of the cause) for systems where the memory amount may be
changed dynamically. If this is indeed a kernel limitation, what
would be
required to get past it?
It's a BIOS limitation, the incoming 2.0.36 already recognizes more than 64
MB, latest 2.1.xxx too.
--ricardo
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