Re: problems with 1gb ddr memory sticks on linux

From: Bryan K. Walton (thisisnotmyid@tds.net)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 14:56:58 EST


Many thanks to Alan, Mark, and everyone else who offered advice on fixing my
problem with my bios and large memory sticks. I rewrote the /proc/mtrr
and everything is speedy now!

Thank you!
Bryan

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 19:40, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > echo "base=0x00000000 size=0x60000000 type=write-back" >/proc/mtrr
 
> >
> > should override the BIOS setting and make your machine speed up.
>
> don't mtrrs still have to be a power of two in size?
> ie, he'd need two for 1024+256...

You are correct he should add one starting at 0 for 1Gb and one at 1Gb
for 256Mb - my error.
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