Re: [Offtopic] Re: 128MB RAM on Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:59:54 +0100 (BST)

> > And you'll find 2.0.36pre* recognizes > 64Mb of RAM itself for precisely
> > the reasons you give
>
> With the new detection method, is it still worth doing the mem=127M thing,
> or is what the kernel detects safe to use?

The kernel uses the value given by the bios extended queries. That means
if the bios has borrowed anything it will have subtracted it ready

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