From: moth@magenta.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram.
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:17:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031211111741.H28449@links.magenta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031211150011.GF8039@holomorphy.com>; from wli@holomorphy.com on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:00:11AM -0800
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:00:11AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> You should probably ignore this thread. It's probably not relevant to
> you.
Ok, thanks. My mistake.
> > [In my fantasies, I was thinking that the system came up with only 1GB of
> > the memory easily usable, and that the lack of support for my hardware
> > meant that it couldn't be properly reconfigured. But I recognize that
> > I haven't spent the time researching this to see if in fact this is
> > the case.]
>
> Highmem support gets you this on ia32. Other architectures can support it
> with less overhead.
Are there docs on this?
> > I am in the process of bringing up an cross compilation environment for
> > amd64 -- I need to do that anyways -- and I'll try building a real 64
> > bit kernel to see if that helps any. If that doesn't, I guess I'll try
> > a couple 4G highmem kernels (one 64 bit, one 32 bit). If nothing else,
> > that will eat up some time...
>
> If you have such a cpu why are you bothering with highmem (or wondering
> if > 2GB is supported)?
I'm not wondering if > 2GB is supported. I'm trying to get 2GB
to work (and I'm having a problem -- perhaps because I believe
Documentation/memory.txt doesn't cover the issues I'm facing).
I've not yet bothered with highmem, but I will if building a 64 bit
kernel doesn't get me access to 2GB.
Does that answer your question?
Thanks,
--
Raul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-11 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-11 5:06 PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram Donald Maner
2003-12-11 5:13 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 5:33 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-11 5:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 5:48 ` Roland Dreier
2003-12-11 5:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 5:48 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 6:01 ` Raul Miller
2003-12-11 6:12 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 6:30 ` David Lang
2003-12-11 7:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 7:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 7:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 13:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 14:41 ` Raul Miller
2003-12-11 14:53 ` Raul Miller
2003-12-11 15:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 16:17 ` moth [this message]
2003-12-11 16:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 19:26 ` Where did the ELF spec go? (SCO website?) Rob Landley
2003-12-11 19:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 20:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-12 11:11 ` Johannes Stezenbach
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2003-12-11 4:51 PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram Raul Miller
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