Re: BIOS detects 4 GB RAM, but kernel does not

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
> Essentially I don't think there is much you can do about this on this board.
> The memory space starting at around 3.2GB is being used by the memory-mapped IO
> regions for the PCI and PCI Express devices and motherboard resources and
> therefore "covers up" the RAM in that part of the address space. The solution
> to this is for the system to remap the affected memory above the 4GB mark,
> which is possible with Athlon 64/Opteron CPUs and on some of the Intel server
> chipsets. However, I don't think any Intel desktop chipsets support this for
> some unfathomable reason.

Maybe PAE can help?


Jan Engelhardt
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