Re: AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-core and 4GB

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 10:32:57 EST


Vladimir Lazarenko <vlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Looking at the thread of Interl Dual-core and 4GB a sudden thought came to my
> mind: "Hey, I'm gonna upgrade my box to 4G next week too... Would it work?"
>
> Thus, the question - would I be able to use whole 4G RAM with dual-core amd and
> kernel with SMP compiled for i686?

A Dual-core is a rev-E processor so the cpu has memory hoisting support,
so it will work if your BIOS implement it properly.

Eric
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