Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

From: Vladimir Lazarenko
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 17:09:46 EST


> AFAIK, No. AMD and Intel will always do the same thing until we all move to
> real IA64.

Somehow, I doubt AMD see it that way :-)

Some boards at least have a BIOS option to support 'memory hoisting'
to map the 'lost' memory above the 4G address space.

I suspect a lot of the lower-end (and older) boards however don't have
this option, as they were not tested with 4GB.


I have Tyan k8e which supports memory remapping. Question, however, will that work with i686-based kernel? Or do we have to switch to x86_64?

Vlad

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