Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

From: Alejandro Bonilla
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 15:58:31 EST


On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:51:18 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote
> Hi Roland,
>
> > Marcel> The BIOS and dmidecode tells me that I have 4 GB of RAM
> > Marcel> installed and I don't have any idea where to look for
> > Marcel> details. What information do you need to analyze this?

.....

>
> The kernel is compiled for x86_64 and the term EM64T is correct. The
> important question is now how do I remap that memory. Loosing almost
> a full GB of memory wasn't my plan when upgrading to 4 GB.

This is pretty much how it works. Else, purchase an Itanium system. ;-)

EM64T != IA64

.Alejandro

>
> Regards
>
> Marcel

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