Re: Problem with 1G RAM

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Dec 1998 07:43:38 GMT


Followup to: <19981204152426.A4627@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
By author: Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 01:19:03PM +0100, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > With the standard Linux kernel, you can only use 1G-64M
> > since the system uses a bit of 'extra' address space for
> > administration.
>
> As a matter of stability, the kernel should be modified to ignore any
> extra memory it can't handle.
>
> Right now, it will simply go horribly wrong with 1G RAM and default
> options, am I right?
>
> It'd be nice if someone would fix the memory map setup so the system at
> least works!
>

No, it will simply ignore the extra memory in the current
configuration.

-hpa

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