Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 06:17:06 EST


Hi Dave,

> > I have system with 2 Pentium 4 Xeon EM64T processors using 4GB of RAM.
> >
> > Kernel is 2.6.13.4 compiled for x86_64 architecture.
> >
> > Btw, /proc/cpuinfo reports, that only 36 bits are availalable for physical
> > memory. Not 40.
>
> That should be fixed in 2.6.14

is this only true for the Xeon series or should it be 40 bits for every
EM64T capable CPU from Intel? I ask, because mine still shows 36 bits
with the latest vanilla from today.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2800.229
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 5609.23
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Regards

Marcel


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